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   ocr: out to the side, like a lizard. Since there is no evidence of a furrow between the footprints, the immense tail must have been carried completely off the ground. The hind feet, mea- suring one yard in length and three-quarters of a yard in width, also had claws, but the toes extend- ed out, leaving separate imprints. The smaller prints, with their three-toed impressions, are the traces of a theropod (ther-o-pod meaning "beast foot") from the early Cretaceous, a meat-eating dinosaur that walked on its two hind feet. They strongly resemble bird tracks- -SO much SO that this type of track was onc ...