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'Monster' dinosaur fossil may not belong to vicious raptor-like predator - CNET
Oct 22, 2021 41 secs
Scientists thought they found footprints of the Triassic period's "largest meat-eating dinosaur." Nope.

In the 1960s, a crew of Australian coal miners stumbled on an alarming underground sight: dinosaur tracks.

This 220 million-year-old dinosaur from the Triassic period wasn't a threatening beast out for blood.

"The more we looked at the footprint and toe impression shapes and proportions, the less they resembled tracks made by predatory dinosaurs," Anthony Romilio, a paleontologist at The University of Queensland in Australia and lead author of the study, said in a statement.

"It must have been quite a sight for the first miners in the 1960s to see big bird-like footprints jutting down from the ceiling," Romilio said.

"This idea caused a sensation decades ago because no other meat-eating dinosaur in the world approached that size during the Triassic period," Romilio said

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