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New research by the University of New England s Palaeoscience Research Centre suggests juvenile tyrannosaurs were slenderer and relatively faster for their body size compared to their multi-tonne parents.
The research, published in the
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, analysed a collection of fossilised tyrannosaur footprints to learn more about the way these animals aged and how they moved.
UNE PhD student and study leader, Nathan Enriquez in international collaboration with the Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum, University of Alberta, Royal Ontario Museum, University of Bologna and the Grande Prairie Regional College believes the findings contribute a new line of evidence to previous findings based on bone anatomy and computer models of muscle masses.
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New research by an international team including paleontologists at the University of Alberta and the Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum has revealed evidence that juvenile tyrannosaurs were more trim and slender-bodied than their multi-tonne elders, a difference that may have helped them pursue fast-moving prey.
“The results suggest that as some tyrannosaurs grew older and heavier, their feet also became comparably more bulky,” said Nathan Enriquez, lead author on the study and a PhD student at the University of New England (UNE) in Armidale, Australia.
The researchers analyzed a collection of fossil tyrannosaur footprints to learn more about how the huge carnivorous dinosaurs moved and how their feet were shaped. The study was a collaboration between UNE, the University of Bologna, Alberta-based Cutbank Palaeontological Consulting, the Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum and the University of Alberta, including co-author Corwin Sullivan, associate professor in the Department
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