Prints helped scientists to find out the speed with which dinosaurs ran

Malakhov Youri the news editor In the Spanish Province of La Rioja archeologists found prints of dinosaurs age about 120 million years. From them help they calculated that prehistoric reptiles could move with a speed about 50 km/h. Details published in edition "Scientific Reports". Read "High tech" in to calculate the speed of dinosaurs, scientists measured length of prints and combined it with hip height. Thus they considered also step length — distance between two prints of one extremity. As showed research, traces belonged to biped carnivorous dinosaurs — Theropoda...