Scientists Claim They Found Bigfoot (The Brachiosaur, Anyway)

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By Gemma Tarlach
Jul 24, 2018 11:00 AMOct 10, 2019 8:45 PM
Photograph from the excavations in 1998, with the brachiosaur foot bones below a tail of a Camarasaurus. University of Kansas expedition crew member as a scale. CREDIT Photo courtesy of the KUVP archives.
Found: Bigfoot! Or at least a brachiosaur foot that researchers nicknamed Bigfoot. A field researcher poses beside its partial remains in this 1998 photo. Foot bones are in foreground; vertebrae and other bones belong to a different animal. (Credit: Photo courtesy of the KUVP archives)

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I don’t know about you, but nothing wakes me up in the morning quite like an announcement from a peer-reviewed journal declaring that paleontologists have found Bigfoot in the Black Hills region of the U.S.

Sooooo…yeah. Not quite. But they are claiming the dinosaur foot they found belonged to the biggest dino ever — which they nicknamed “Bigfoot.” Sneaky clickbait? Sure. But also some interesting science. Read on: The game is afoot.

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