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Article: Walking like a dinosaur: who struts like a dinosaur? An emu does!
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- Highlights for Children
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- September 1, 2008
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How much can we learn from old footprints? Professor Brent Breithaupt has learned quite a bit.
This dinosaur detective is on the trail of creatures that lived 165 million years ago. What kinds of dinosaurs were they?
What were they doing?
Like any good detective, Breithaupt began with a thorough study of the scene: the Red Gulch Dinosaur Tracksite in northern Wyoming. He is director of the University of Wyoming Geological Museum, and he knew that fossils of dinosaur footprints had been spotted there in a dry streambed.
Studying Dinosaur Tracks
On hands and knees, Breithaupt and his team searched for dinosaur tracks. They mapped, measured, and photographed ...