First Complete Adult T. rex Walking Trackway Discovered in North Dakota
Paleontologists have identified a 7-meter trackway of four large footprints belonging to an adult Tyrannosaurus rex in the Hell Creek Formation of southwestern North Dakota, dating to about 66. 5 million years ago. The discovery follows earlier reports that a series of three-toed prints in the same formation, first noted by a high-school teacher and museum researcher, represented the first known T. rex trackway.
Subsequent analysis by volunteer paleontologist Dr. Tyler Lyson and colleagues confirmed the four-print, 23-foot track as the first complete walking track of a mature T. rex, and they plan to airlift the prints to the Denver Museum of Nature & Science for further study and public display.
Actors
Dr. Tyler Lyson
Kent Hups
Peter Falkingham
Denver Museum of Nature & Science
Liverpool John Moores University
U.S. Forest Service
Locations
Southwestern North Dakota, United States
Denver, Colorado, United States
Liverpool, United Kingdom
U.S. Forest Service land, North Dakota, United States
