Prehistoric predator? Artificial intelligence says no

Artificial intelligence has revealed that prehistoric footprints thought to be made by a vicious dinosaur predator were in fact from a timid herbivore. In an international collaboration, University of Queensland paleontologist Dr. Anthony Romilio used AI pattern recognition to re-analyze footprints from the Dinosaur Stampede National Monument, south-west of Winton in Central Queensland. "Large dinosaur footprints were first discovered back in the 1970s at a track site called the Dinosaur Stampede National Monument, and for many years they were believed to be left by a predatory dinosaur, like Australovenator, with legs nearly two meters long," said Dr. Romilio. "The mysterious tracks were thought to be left during the mid-Cretaceous Period, around 93 million years ago. "But working out what dino species made the footprints exactly--especially from tens of millions of years ago--can be a pretty difficult and confusing business.