World's largest dinosaur digitally recreated:-
In a real-life Jurassic park move, one of the world's largest dinosaurs has been digitally reconstructed by scientists, allowing it to take its first steps in over 94 million years.
The dinosaur weighed 80 tonnes and computer simulation shows that it would have reached just over 2 m/s - about 5 mph, researchers said.
The University of Manchester team, working with scientists in Argentina, were able to laser scan a 40 metre-long skeleton of the vast Cretaceous Argentinosaurus dinosaur.
Then using an advanced computer modelling technique involving the equivalent of 30,000 desktop computers they recreated its walking and running movements and tested its locomotion ability tested for the very first time.
"Argentinosaurus is the biggest animal that ever walked on the surface of the Earth and understanding how it did this will tell us a lot about the maximum performance of the vertebrate musculoskeletal system,".
The study was published in the journal PLOS ONE.
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In a real-life Jurassic park move, one of the world's largest dinosaurs has been digitally reconstructed by scientists, allowing it to take its first steps in over 94 million years.
The dinosaur weighed 80 tonnes and computer simulation shows that it would have reached just over 2 m/s - about 5 mph, researchers said.
The University of Manchester team, working with scientists in Argentina, were able to laser scan a 40 metre-long skeleton of the vast Cretaceous Argentinosaurus dinosaur.
Then using an advanced computer modelling technique involving the equivalent of 30,000 desktop computers they recreated its walking and running movements and tested its locomotion ability tested for the very first time.
"Argentinosaurus is the biggest animal that ever walked on the surface of the Earth and understanding how it did this will tell us a lot about the maximum performance of the vertebrate musculoskeletal system,".
The study was published in the journal PLOS ONE.
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