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Footprints and

Found
trackways up to 6 ⁄2 ft (2 m)
in Mongolia,
giant footprints
The age of dinosaurs wide were made
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by titanosaurs.

Front and back
feet made different- Iguanodon Ankylosaurus
sized footprints.

Fossilized bones can tell us a lot about than what type of animal made it; the most
how the dinosaurs were built, but less interesting information comes from trackways—
about how they lived. Fossilized footprints, sets of footprints left by animals on the move.
however, can show how dinosaurs walked and The angle and spacing of the prints show how
ran and whether they lived alone or in a group. they placed their feet. The spacing also reveals
72 A single footprint does not tell us much more the stride length, and if this varies, it indicates

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