A massive limb with a broad foot is essential in such heavy animals.
With their broad feet, they destroy water springs and other things consistent with historical grazing use".
And langorous wandering along broad foot paths lined with neat flower beds shaded by century old trees is still the top activity in Sopot's well-groomed center.
The broad feet have hairy soles to protect and insulate as well as to facilitate movement across ice, as does the uneven skin on the soles of the feet, which helps to prevent slipping.
And Deinocheirus retains the relatively short and broad foot of a typical theropod, unlike the long, slender feet of the ornithomimid ornithomimosaurs (such as its smaller contemporary Gallimimus) and of the tyrannosaurids (such as the predator of Deinocheirus, Tarbosaurus7).
Features that enabled the ancient camel to survive those cold winters, like broad feet and its signature hump of fat, proved equally useful as the species went to desert regions, she said.
Further, she has broad feet and "a space between her teeth that would hold a number-two pencil" — the tooth space even conjuring a kid's move of fitting a pencil there.
Soon we were surrounded by dozens of men and women dripping in war paint and stomping the earth so hard with their thick, broad feet that it made my knees hurt just watching them.
There is an exquisite beauty to the shell, used since ancient times for jewellery, yet it is the flesh of the abalone, composed chiefly of its broad foot, that has made it so valuable.
Agliotti said that during one of their shopping jaunts, Mr. Selebi asked him to buy a pair of expensive shoes for the president".He needed to buy a size 7 because the president had small and broad feet," Mr. Agliotti testified.
