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Detailed explanation-1: -The largest dinosaur footprint ever found was recently discovered in a kind of real-life Jurassic Park-Dampier Peninsula in Northwest Australia. The footprint measured 5 feet 9 inches. The print belonged to a sauropod, a long-necked herbivore seen in most dinosaur movies.

Detailed explanation-2: -Less than a month ago, paleontologists announced the discovery of Natovenator, a small and almost duck-like dinosaur that lived in the Cretaceous of what’s now Mongolia.

Detailed explanation-3: -Researchers, including those from the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, say the dinosaur named Daurlong wangi was a type of mid-sized dromaeosaurid – a group of bird-like predatory dinosaurs. This species, scientists say, primarily fed on fish, mammals, and other dinosaurs.

Detailed explanation-4: -The largest footprint found–measuring 80 cm in width and 65 cm in length–has been identified as belonging to an Iguanodon-like dinosaur. Iguanodons were also plant-eaters, grew up to 10 metres long and walked on both two legs or on all fours.

Detailed explanation-5: -They’re considered to be the largest animals ever to walk the Earth-extending the length of three school buses-according to research by the University of California, Berkeley. Xing noted that the footprints of the dinosaurs that roamed the Earth found in the restaurant measured around 26 feet in body length.