A key feature contributed to sauropods getting so enormous, new dino foot study reveals

  • Written by: Steven W. Salisbury, PhD; Associate Professor, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland
A key feature contributed to sauropods getting so enormous, new dino foot study revealsHerschel Hoffmeyer/Shutterstock

For the first time, we have shown that a soft heel pad was crucial to how sauropod dinosaurs supported their immense weight, according to a new digital reconstruction of their feet.

Sauropods, which weighed up to 50 tonnes and dominated the world’s ecosystems for around 100 million years, appear to have...

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