Record-breaking footprint found on England's 'Dinosaur Coast'

[Wicked Blue]

BRADFORD, England — The brooding landscape of the English county of Yorkshire has perhaps been best known as the home of the gothic novels “Wuthering Heights” and “Jane Eyre” by the Brontë sisters.

But long before they put pen to paper, giant carnivorous dinosaurs roamed the area that locals refer to as “God’s own country” and one left a footprint that experts Thursday confirmed was the largest ever discovered in Yorkshire.

More than 3 feet long, the footprint was made by a meat-eating theropod dinosaur almost 166 million years ago from the Jurassic Period, according to the authors of a study published in the Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society journal.

They added that they thought the dinosaur was squatting or resting when it left the three-toed footprint in the Cleveland Basin area, which is now the east coast of Yorkshire.

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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/record-breaking-footprint-found-englands-dinosaur-coast-rcna70948

[NickB79]

1. Similar sized tyrannosaur tracks have been estimated to come from 40' long individuals

That's a big boy.