Sentences with phrase «footprint trackways»

«We know from the spacing of the footprint trackways and a belly - mark that it was around 600 centimetres across and 2 metres long, and was moving through the sand like an alligator,» says Tucker.

Not exact matches

«We've found a lot more skeletons, and we also have hundreds of fossil trackways, preserving dinosaur footprints,» says Lamanna.

With the new reconstruction, paleontologists can now analyze the trackways and better determine things such as the sizes, motions, and walking speeds of the dinosaurs that left the footprints — which, in turn, may reveal whether an ancient predator really «chased» its prey along an ancient shoreline or merely ambled by at about the same time.

Recently excavated by a team from the University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History, the Bureau of Land Management and the University of Louisiana, the trackway includes 117 footprints thought to represent a number of adults as well as juvenile and infant mammoths.

But, as the study reveals, the limping animal wasn't alone: Two sets of smaller footprints appeared to be approaching and retreating from the limper's trackway.

Their work unearthed many more dinosaur footprints and trackways.

trackway A set of impressions, usually footprints, left behind by an animal.

They left behind an extremely rich geological record: 350 trackways of over 5,000 footprints belonging to 330 different species.

Just northeast of Las Cruces in the Robledo Mountains, the U.S. is developing the Prehistoric Trackways National Monument to protect recently discovered fossils of dinosaur footprints and tTrackways National Monument to protect recently discovered fossils of dinosaur footprints and trackwaystrackways.