New insights into the way that theropod dinosaurs walked the earth are providing another piece of the puzzle regarding our understanding of extinct animals and how they are portrayed in popular culture.
The Griffith University-led research, published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface this week, has revealed that theropod dinosaurs such as Tyrannosaurus Rex (T-Rex), were more similar to birds than to humans in the way that they moved, a finding that goes against what was previously believed.
The work will be just one of the topics featured at next week’s XXVI Congress of the International Society of Biomechanics 2017. Jointly hosted and sponsored by Griffith University, the event is at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre from 23-27 July.
Dr Peter Bishop from Griffith’s Menzies Health Institute Queensland used simple step width measurements of fossil footprints of extinct theropod dinosaurs from more than 210 million years ago and compare them with
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