Palaeontologist: Dinosaur Footprints – Biomechanics – Simulation
Three papers in the last few months, which feels like a decent enough excuse to do a quick roundup. Micro-CT scanning tracks (Tash Prescott et al.) First up is Tash Prescott with a paper just out in Fossil Studies: How do you visualise what's happening beneath the surface when a foot presses into sediment, without destroying... Continue Reading →
I should probably have made this post sooner, as it's about my chapter in the Great Dinosaur Track Book Of 2016: "Dinosaur Tracks: The Next Steps". It's a volume I was privileged enough to be an editor for, and it contains a number of excellent chapters. I wanted to post about my own... Continue Reading →
Monday saw the release of a paper that Steve Gatesy and I have been brewing up for the past couple of years. The paper is published in PNAS, and is titled: The birth of a dinosaur footprint: Subsurface 3D motion reconstruction and discrete element simulation reveal track ontogeny. It's a bit of a long title,... Continue Reading →
Prof. Peter L. Falkingham 