New AI method helps identify which dinosaur made which footprints


FILE PHOTO: Paleontologist Sebastian Apesteguia measures a footprint made by a meat-eating dinosaur some 80 million years ago at the Maragua Syncline, Bolivia, July 21, 2016. REUTERS/David Mercado/File Photo

WASHINGTON, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Footprints are among the most ‌common kind of dinosaur fossils. Sometimes scientists find a single, lonely footprint. Sometimes they come across a chaotic jumble of tracks resembling a dance floor, sort ‌of a dinosaur discotheque. But identifying which dinosaur left which track has been notoriously difficult.

Researchers have now developed a method harnessing artificial intelligence to ‌assist in pinpointing the type of dinosaur responsible for the tracks, based on eight different traits of a given footprint.

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