100 Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Footprints Discovered in Diner

Interested in brunch while looking at 100 million-year-old dinosaur footprints? Earlier this month, an observant at a restaurant in southwest China spotted a set of footprints on the stone floor of the courtyard where they were dining. After spotting the footprints, paleontologists were called in to observe and identify them and discovered a new set of footprints, which they say belong to two dinosaurs that walked the planet some 100 million years ago.

Riley Black, a paleontologist and science writer, discovered these footprints belonged to sauropods. Sauropods were plant-eaters with small heads and long necks and tails, and they were monstrous. Black stated: All these dinosaurs hatched out of eggs that were about the size of a grapefruit. So they were kind of like popcorn to the carnivores of their time…Their whole game plan, evolutionarily speaking, was to eat a whole bunch of plants and get big as fast as possible.”

Source: NPR