Find the world's largest dinosaur footprint
On October 7, French fossil experts said the dinosaur footprints believed to be the world's largest in chalk sediment in a small village of Plagne, in the Jura plateau, near the southeastern city were found. Lyon, France.
According to the BBC News Agency, giant dinosaur footprints are of long-grass-eating Sauropods. The footprints are about 1.5 meters deep, corresponding to a large body weighing about 30 tons and a length of more than 25 meters of the Sauropods.
Fossil experts study the newly discovered giant dinosaur footprint
currently in Plagne village, France
French fossil experts say the discovery of footprints in the village of Plagne, near Switzerland is 'rare'.
'The dinosaur footprints were discovered within tens, even hundreds of meters. In fact, these footprints were discovered by amateur fossil hunters in April but have only recently been proved by scientists' - the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) said.
Sauropods dinosaurs lived 150 million years ago during the Upper Jura period, at which time the Plagne region was mostly covered by shallow and warm seas.
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