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In Australia’s Jurassic Park, paleontologists discovered 21 types of dinosaur tracks, including the largest ever found, a 21-foot-5-inch sauropod footprint. The area also contained evidence of Stegosaurus, and would have been a spectacle 130 million years ago.
In 2017, a team of paleontologists unveiled 21 different types of dinosaur tracks found along a 13-kilometer stretch of the Dampier Peninsula, an area now called Australia’s Jurassic Park. Among these dinosaur tracks, they found the largest footprint to date, a 21-foot-5-inch (9-meter) footprint found in an ancient rock formation along Australia’s west coast. The footprint belonged to a sauropod, a huge herbivorous beast with a profile familiar to dinosaur enthusiasts. Perhaps the best-known sauropod is Brontosaurus, a stout-bodied paleo-specimen with a long tail, long neck, and small head, capable of crunching through treetops.
Dinosaur land, man:
“If we had gone back in time 130 million years ago,” said Steve Salisbury, lead author of the study and a professor at the University of Queensland, “we would have seen all these different dinosaurs walking along this coast. It must have been quite a show”.
Salisbury and his team have been working in the area for five years. Among their finds was evidence that the distinctive Stegosaurus, known for the armor plates lining its spine, also lived in Australia.
The previous largest footprint was nearly 3 feet 9 inches long (1.15 meters). Paleontologists working in Bolivia found tracks of the large carnivore in 2016.
