A trail of fossilized three-toed footprints that measure nearly 57 centimetres (two feet) long shows that a huge meat-eating dinosaur stalked southern Africa 200 million years ago at a time when most carnivorous dinosaurs were modest-sized beasts. The scientists concluded it was a large theropod — the two-legged carnivorous dinosaur group that included later giants like Tyrannosaurus and Giganotosaurus — but that it was more lightly built than those brutes. Scientists estimated that the dinosaur that made the footprints, which they named Kayentapus ambrokholohali, was about nine metres (30 feet) long. No bonesThere are no skeletal fossils of meat-eating dinosaurs this large so early in the dinosaur evolutionary history. There are other fossilized footprints from Poland that indicate a similar-sized theropod inhabited the northernsuper-continent of Laurasia around the same time.

Source: CBC News October 27, 2017 15:33 UTC