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South Africa’s largest dinosaur upends theories of how four-legged walking began

Fossils from 12-tonne dinosaur suggests this mode of locomotion was an evolutionary ‘experiment’.
  1. Sarah Wild
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Researchers have discovered fossils from South Africa’s largest dinosaur yet — a find that they say changes their understanding of how four-legged walking evolved in the lingeage that includes some the biggest animals ever to walk the planet.

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Nature 562, 17 (2018)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-06881-5

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  1. McPhee, B. W., Benson, R. B. J., Botha-Brink, J., Bordy, E. M. & Choiniere, J. N. Curr. Biol. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2018.07.063 (2018).

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