Dinosaurs big animals, Dinosaur Paleontology animal Research

Big Dinosaurs: It’s back on the ground again it makes a whole lot of sense. There are all kinds of forces centered on it whether he was attacking very small or very big animals.

Dinosaurs big animals

He could always sink the claw into the prey these animals are typified by having very very large claws on the second toe of their feet and there’s been a lot of argument in the scientific literature about whether or not. These claws were held erect when the animal walked or whether that they were just.

You know went down and went into the sediment so more of these tracks we find like the ones in Korea, as well as these, really showed us that when these animals were walking is that, they held the big uh raptorial claw up off of the ground with the help of 3d animations. They want to get an idea of the entire habitat available to the citizens of Oben Kierken in the lower cretaceous period.

Among them the iguanodons that designer frank senholz is working on here you see what we call the texture that means the body surface the skin the inside of the tongue here and this whole construction is then mounted onto the animal as it were and once you put the texture onto the object you can put the whole thing onto a turntable and look at it from all sides. So, of course, it’d be great if the scientific background could tell us how close we are to what we’re after.

In fact, we have something of a kind with us but I’d say straight away that by and large it really is pretty accurate well that’s very encouraging. Now it’s a very good start indeed the legs aren’t quite as they should be they’re too far apart both the front ones and the rear ones. They don’t square with the tracks that we’ve been finding it’s the position of the feet distances yeah I wasn’t sure.

Let’s see what we can do more like this yes much better that’s much better and at the end, you have a complete film you see a complete take or shot as we say yeah this is how it looks you can tell from the final result that there are still some fuzzy agents things that real cameras.

Do we have to imitate artificially as it were that’s a wonderful thing oh absolutely to be able to bring things back from the dead it’s really satisfying it’s not something you could have predicted in childhood back in the 70s, of course, I hope it makes my scientific colleagues just as happy to see their fines come alive?

As it was I think it must surely be very inspiring if I try and put myself in their place I just imagine scrambling around in some quarry for years with a hammer up to your knees and dust and dirt and then suddenly the diners are there on the screen moving through the landscape that used to be here.

All that time ago for them, it must surely be a personal triumph one big celebration, and for me too once the raptors armed with their deadly sickle claws had discovered their prey. The cumbersome iguanodons had little chance of escape ah yes for all predators both present-day and prehistoric and an open waterhole is a perfect spot for an attack.

We, humans, are simply not strong and agile enough they can run faster than we can and jump higher apart from our intellectual capacities. They were superior to us in every way and it would have been very bad for your health to come across more than one of them.

Dinosaur paleontology research

The quarry owner approaches the scientists are planning an open day Annetta Richter expects lots of diner fans good advertising for her work but now she will need some skillful psychology to get Klaus Costa on her side right before we shake hands or anything.

Here’s some dino grub for us all isn’t that nice though there aren’t any cherries yet. They are in here as they check out the locality Aneta Richter once again has to fight to get Klaus Kuster to continue tolerating the archaeological digs in the quarry for a brief moment.

Their joint dislike of unwanted guests even makes some unexpected this allies our favorite job here spending hours telling those onlookers uh that they’re not wanted as soon as they hear. There’s something to do with dinosaurs going on here. They grab their kids and hit the road yes it was you I meant no need to run away.

There’s a sign down there saying that trespassing isn’t allowed right. Yes, I know the place is crawling with illiterates that can’t read illiterates is what I said but you can’t go any further. Here it doesn’t make any difference she can’t climb up the wall can she well just go back then that’s a good idea it’s always the same tricks always the same excuses to a certain extent I sympathize with them.

All these people swarming over his quarry to think that suddenly it belongs to them. We’re taxpayers sure we can walk around here sure it belongs to us.

They say but these people have no feeling for the fact that stone is a product an expensive product that’s expensive to get out of the ground. So, there’s bound to be some bad feelings be amazing a change of perspective a mini helicopter with a camera inside provides Aneta Richter and Torsten van der lube with an aerial view of the quarry.

They hope that it may show up something like a prevailing direction in which the tracks are pointing. In the last few years techniques like this have brought about major progress in paleontology about a century ago one could have looked at a track and tried to match it with the static structure of a dinosaur foot and that was about as far as you could go or you could classify tracks into different types and give them names but as far as biological and biomechanical.

Interpretation goes a lot of things are possible now that weren’t then and I think that’s why tracks are becoming more important as a source of evidence the aerial views are designed to help the scientists analyze the tracks more systematically but the outcome is sobering. There is little to be discerned from the maze of tracks the scientists still don’t know how many dinosaurs pass this way altogether.

Well if anything the view from above makes the confusion bigger. These animals even more clear but there’s no prevalent direction or if there is we can’t make it out and the view from above reduces the area.

A whole lot as well if you have to dig it up it’s really quite a large area involves a lot of work seeing it from above puts it in a different perspective you suddenly realize that the habitat of all these animals in the prehistoric lagoon was really quite small. Back to the cretaceous, the traces have given the scientists new insights into the behavior of the herbivores.