A team of researchers discovered four dinosaur footprints in North Dakota, United States, in a discovery that may represent the first known trackway probably attributed to an adult T. rex. The four footprints were found in the Hell Creek geological formation, an area known for the rarity of dinosaur traces.
The trackway sequence consists of four large marks, each approximately one meter in length. The size of the footprints and the presence of three toes on each one are consistent with the anatomy of an adult T. rex, according to the team responsible for the discovery.
According to the scientific publication IFLScience, this discovery comes in a context where only a few isolated footprints attributed to T. rex were known, but never a complete trackway with multiple footprints. The rarity of traces in the Hell Creek formation makes this discovery particularly significant for understanding the behavior and locomotion of this prehistoric predator.
