DENVER - Scientists have announced that they found a footprint of approximately 148 million years old from a baby dinosaur near the Denver area.Custom scientists are baby-sized dinosaur that was probably a little dog is being migrated with his parents in that location. Similarly, as reported by LiveScience.
Scientists discover footprints of dinosaurs in the town of Kolo, near Denver. The scientists, at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America in Denver, said that the baby dinosaur footprints from the type of Apatosaurus, a type of sauropod (long-necked plant-eating dinosaurs), formerly known as Brontosaurus.
"The distance between each step two times wider than the footprint that we studied previously, indicating that the animal is in motion running fast," said Matthew Mossbrucker, president of the Morrison Natural History Museum in Boulder, Colo.
Apatosaurus is the largest sauropod dinosaur species found in the Denver area.
But the sauropod Apatosaurus was first discovered in Morrison in 1877, which the scientists say that the length of the dinosaurs of this type is about three school buses and heavy as eight Asian elephants.
While the trail made by the baby Apatosaurus was small. Footprints of dinosaur footprints are only showing the back only, showed that when the baby dinosaurs ran, he uses his hind legs as a catapult motion. While the Apatosaurus footprints were found indicate that they were walking.
"For over 100 years whether the type of sauropod dinosaurs could stand with his feet alone, in fact they can, even the babies they can run," said Mossbrucker.
"In the end, we now have evidence that the baby sauropod dinosaurs ran like a basilisk lizard, lizard who uses his hind legs when running as a thrower movement," added Mossbrucker.
Further studies will be conducted to understand the biomechanics of dinosaurs and what kind of baby Apatosaurus that way.
These findings will be presented at the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting & Exposition in Denver 2010.
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