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By Nicholas Carter DHT Dino News & ViewsFossilized dinosaur footprints can tell us a lot about the lives of the animals that left them.
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By Nicholas Carter DHT Dino News & ViewsFossilized dinosaur footprints can tell us a lot about the lives of the animals that left them.
Article content By Nicholas Carter DHT Dino News & Views Fossilized dinosaur footprints can tell us a lot about the lives of the animals that left them. Speed, posture, social behavior, signs of injury, and the anatomy of the foot’s soft tissue can all be deduced from fossilized tracks. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. Tyrant Tracks Back to video Several different types of dinosaur tracks are known from Alberta’s Peace region, including footprints left by small birdlike predators, ‘duck-billed’ hadrosaurs, and even tyrannosaurids. Eight w...
Consider the below scene from the 1993 blockbuster Jurassic Park; an adult T. rex chases down a speeding Jeep — much to the thrill of the audience. The 1993 Jeep chase scene from Jurassic Park remains an iconic movie moment. But Jeeps and fanciful theme parks aside, are these depictions realistic? Our research, published today in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, shows while young tyrannosaurs may have indeed been the vision of wrath depicted above, they likely became broader-footed, bulky and less mobile in adulthood. A new perspective Previous arguments about the way tyrannosaur...