Dinosaur Print

Massive 4ft-wide dinosaur footprint discovered in Bolivia.

16:51 02 August 2016

A tourist guide has stumbled upon a 4ft-wide dinosaur print 40 miles outside the city of Sucre in central Bolivia, an area well known for dinosaur tracks. The print, which is one of the biggest dinosaur prints ever found, was discovered hidden beneath a mound of boulders.

 

The print was studied by a team of paleontologists, who believed that it belonged to an abelisaurus around 80 million years ago. Abelisauruses were the dominant predators in the Southern hemisphere, around the same time that tyrannosaurids roamed North America and Asia. 

 

Sebastian Apesteguia, who is studying the print, said:

 

'This print is bigger than any other we have found to date in the area.' 

 

'Footprints this large have never been reported.

 

'Their normal size was around nine metres, but the footprints we found were for an animal that easily exceeds 10 or even 12 metres.'