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Stampeding dinosaurs were actually swimming

Tyrannosaurus rex at the University of California Museum of Paleontology, UC Berkeley
Tyrannosaurus rex at the University of California Museum of Paleontology, UC Berkeley by Dallas Krentzel
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Fossilized track marks from a stampede of dinosaurs in Australia actually might have originated from swimming animals, brand-new research suggests. The finding, published in the January problem of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, upends the typical interpretation of the globe 's only dinosaur stampede. Instead of a team of small dinosaurs trying to escape a substantial carnivore, the fossils might reveal an ancient dinosaur "superhighway" or river crossing, said research co-author Anthony Romilio, a paleontologist at the University of Queensland in Australia. Dinosaur tracks
Some 3,000 to 4,000 fossilized dinosaur impacts were formed about 95 million years back in a sandy riverbank in what was when a lush, coniferous forest.

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