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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.
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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 well-preserved tyrannosaurid tracks in particular are the subject of a new publication led by grad student Nathan Enriquez from the University of New England in Armidale, Australia. The international team of coauthors, which form the Boreal Alberta Dinosaur Project, also includes Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum head curator Dr. Corwin Sullivan.