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A 130 million-year-old dinosaur footprint has been found along the beach near the town of Broome, Western Australia.

Dinosaur footprints have been spotted on an Australian beach by a woman who was collecting shells when she chanced upon the giant prints.

Bindi Lee Porth said she was collecting seashells when she felt a blank flange in the sand. Clearing it away, she found a number of massive, preserved footprints.

Porth said she had been on the beach dozens of times before without seeing any dinosaur footprints.

University of Queensland paleontologist Steve Salisbury told tracks had probably been covered by sand or water for decades, but erratic tides at Cable Beach had finally revealed them.

He said the tracks were called Megalosaurus Broomensis and they were probably made by a medium-sized carnivore. Dinosaur tracks have been part of Aboriginal mythology, known as Dreamtime, in the area for generations.

Other footprints found include those of the stegosaurus and the enormous, herbivorous brontosaurus.

According to Salisbury, the rock which holds the footprints is stronger than the layers above it, which have washed away over the years to expose the footprints to the air once again.