d that bipedal theropod dinosaurs such as Tyrannosaurus Rex could run at speeds of up to 30 kph.

Although the mighty creatures that lived 163 million years ago are long gone, Julia Day of the University of Cambridge said the finding sheds new light on the evolution of the locomotion of dinosaurs and could have implications for biomechanics. „Dinosaurs could run for short bursts,“ said Day, a palaeontologist at the university. She and her colleagues were able to calculate the speed of the beasts from the prints at the track in the Ardley Quarry in Oxfordshire. Their research is reported in the science journal Nature.

Reuters