How HPC Is Igniting Discoveries In Dinosaur Locomotion – And Beyond
In the basement of Connecticut's Beneski Museum of Natural History sit the fossilized footprints of a small, chicken-sized dinosaur. Each track is more than a preserved impression; it’s a data record, holding clues to how the animal once moved.
Unlocking that information, however, requires a tool that never existed in the Mesozoic: high performance computing. Today, advanced simulations can reconstruct those steps in the sand grain by grain, revealing not just how dinosaurs walked, but the core mechanics of locomotion itself.
“We’re looking at using dinosaur tracks, footprints, to reconstruct how dinosaurs moved around 200 million years ago,”
explained professor Peter Falkingham, a paleobiologist at Liverpool John Moores University.
Author's summary: HPC helps unlock dinosaur movement secrets.
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