Huge dinosaur may have stood on its toes with fleshy pads for balance

Jay P. Nair and Andréas Jannel

By Yvaine Ye

A 24-tonne dinosaur looks to salvage stood on its tip toes. A fossil analysis reveals how its bone development supposed it couldn’t salvage flattened its feet on the ground, and as a alternative would possibly presumably per chance additionally simply salvage stood on its toes with corpulent pads for steadiness.

Rhoetosaurus brownie lived round 170 million years ago and used to be a form of sauropod dinosaur. Sauropoods walked on all fours and had lengthy necks and tails. They are an important land animals ever identified to exist and the crew comprises Diplodocus.

Andréas …