This website focuses specifically upon the footprints, or tracks, left by the infamous dinosaurs. In recent years the study of dinosaur footprints has experienced a rennaisance. Footprints are especially useful when combined with other fields of palaeobiology. We can compare footprints with various dinosaur skeletons. Such studies have helped in correctly reconstructing dinosaur posture.
Tracks are useful indicators of dinosaur behaviour .
Unlike skeletons, footprints are evidence of living dinosaurs. We can use footprints to indicate how fast these ancient beasts moved. Footprints might also indicate if these animals travelled en masse, or in herds, or as solitary creatures. Occasionally we find exceptional trackways that show carnivorous dinosaurs pursuing prey. Knowing the type of substrate that a footprint was made in can tell us something about the environment that the animal was living in or passing through.