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Footprints of dinosaurs gave interesting clues about their gait

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dinosaur skeleton at museum We all must have watched Jurassic Park , a famous action science-fiction 1993 blockbuster film series but did we ever imagine and thought how this big four feet animal used to walk in real life before its extinction. It made me browse Wikipedia to get answers. There I found interesting facts about Sauropod - was actually a member of the Dinosaur  subgroup Sauropoda that was living between 201 million and 66 million years ago, recognized by large size, long neck, and tail, a four-legged animal, herbivorous, walked like a “ pace gait ,” similar to giraffe, hitting left or right legs on the ground at once and considered one of the largest of all dinosaurs and land animals. Scientists during their research compared big dinosaurs to semi-trucks because when they moved around, weighed as much as 70 tons , researchers while analyzing fossiled footprints, said that big four feet animals walked by keeping one foot down on each side during swinging their diagon...