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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Vishwam Sankaran

Footprints of world’s largest dinosaurs discovered in Chinese restaurant’s courtyard

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Paleontologists have uncovered the footprints of two sauropod dinosaurs dating back by about 100 million years at the outdoor courtyard of a restaurant in southwestern China.

The herbivorous sauropods, marked by their long neck and tail and growing to an enormous size — the length of three school buses — lived during the early Cretaceous period and are the largest land animals to have ever roamed the planet.

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