HTTP:: How Dinosaurs Moved Down Slippery Slopes
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An international team of scientists, consisting of members from the University of Michigan, in the US, the Universidad de Buenos Aires, in Argentina, and the Iziko South African Museum, in Cape Town, South Africa, has recently revealed new clues of how dinosaurs moved down slopes. Apparently, in spite of their massive size, the animals were able to control their motion and make on-the-fly adjustments to their strides, so as to minimize the risk of falling down. If a massive dinosaur tilted over, chances were it wouldn't have been able to get back up again, e! Science News reports. In the new investigation, published online in the October 6 issue of the open-access journal PLoS ONE, the team reveals that the way early dinosaurs made stride adjustments to their paces may yield some further insight into the later evolution of the creatures. “Tracks and trackways bring animals to life in a way that their bones cannot, by providing a brief but vibrant record of a living, b!
reathing animal as it moved through its environment. While fossilized bones can provide a wealth of information about extinct animals' anatomy and physiology, inferences about their locomotion and behavior are necessarily indirect,†University of Michigan (UM) Department of Geological Sciences Assistant Professor Jeffrey Wilson, who...
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