{"id":2493,"date":"2014-07-23T13:05:46","date_gmt":"2014-07-23T18:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=2493"},"modified":"2014-07-24T16:39:27","modified_gmt":"2014-07-24T21:39:27","slug":"tyrannosaurs-travelled-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/tyrannosaurs-travelled-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyrannosaurs travelled together<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2420\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Footprint.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2420\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2420\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Footprint.jpg\" alt=\"Tyrannosaur trackways like this one discovered in British Columbia provide new evidence that these animals may have travelled in packs. (Photo credit: McCrea et al. (2014), PLOS ONE)\" width=\"350\" height=\"520\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Footprint.jpg 350w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Footprint-201x300.jpg 201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2420\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tyrannosaur trackways like this one discovered in British Columbia provide new evidence that these animals may have travelled in packs. (Photo credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.plos.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0103613\">McCrea et al. (2014), PLOS ONE<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Well-preserved fossil footprints provide the first trackway evidence that Tyrannosaurs may have travelled in packs. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The footprints were found in rocks from northeastern British Columbia and show three Tyrannosaurs travelling in the same direction at the same time, relatively close together. Until now, the evidence for the pack-like nature of Tyrannosaurs relied on the proximity of their bones and trackways of related species. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The footprints also provide important information about the gait of Tyrannosaurs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.plos.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0103613\" target=\"_blank\">Original research paper<\/a><\/span>\u00a0published in the\u00a0journal\u00a0<em>PLoS ONE<span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/em>on\u00a0<strong>July 23, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Richard McCrea, Peace Region Palaeontology Research Centre, British Columbia<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well-preserved fossil footprints provide the first trackway evidence that Tyrannosaurs may have travelled in packs. The footprints were found in rocks from northeastern British Columbia and show three Tyrannosaurs travelling in the same direction at the same time, relatively close together. Until now, the evidence for the pack-like nature of Tyrannosaurs relied on the proximity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2420,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[125,2008,1938,1862,2009],"class_list":["post-2493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-british-columbia","tag-dinosaurs","tag-fossils","tag-paleontology","tag-tyrannosaurs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Footprint.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-Ed","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2493"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2516,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493\/revisions\/2516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}