World's biggest dinosaur footprint found in 'Australia's Jurassic Park
The world's biggest dinosaur footprint has been discovered in northwestern Australia, measuring at nearly 5 feet 9 inches (1.75 meters), the lead author of a study said. The track belonged to a sauropod, a long-necked herbivore. It tops a record 1.15 meter-long (nearly 3 feet 9 inches) footprint found last July, the biggest ever from a carnivorous dinosaur. "The giant footprints are no doubt spectacular," Steve Salisbury, the lead author of the study and a professor at the University of Queensland, told CNN of the record-setting fossil. "There's nothing that comes close (to this length)." But the footprint was just one of a series of amazing finds in an area Salisbury dubbed "Australia's Jurassic Park." Twenty-one different dinosaur tracks were discovered across the Dampier Peninsula in the unprecedented" find, the University of Queensland said in a news release , with some rocks as old as 140 million years. Salisbury said the c