If you need an excuse to go to a party this weekend, allow yourself to think about the possibility that your French toast will cause you to do more research.
A patron at a restaurant in southwest China saw footprints in the stone floor of the courtyard where they were eating.
The paleontologists on the scene discovered a new set of footprints that they say are from two dinosaurs that walked the planet 100 million years ago.
One of the experts was a paleontologist. He told CNN that his team used a 3D scanning device to confirm that the marks were left by sauropods.
The sauropods were plant-eaters with long necks and tails.
All of the dinosaurs were hatched out of small eggs. Riley Black, a paleontologist and science writer, said that they were similar to popcorn.
Their game plan was to eat a lot of plants and get big as quickly as possible.
The time for sauropods to walk the Earth may be over, but this discovery is still exciting.
China is undergoing a fossil renaissance with regard to dinosaur footprints. Scott Persons is a Paleontologist at the College of Charleston. He worked with the Chinese scientists who made the discovery.
Persons has never gone to a restaurant to find dinosaur tracks.
Black believes that the remains of fossils are still around.
Many of the sidewalks in Salt Lake City are made from earlyJurassic sandstone. I haven't seen a dinosaur yet, but you will see tracks made by arthropods in the sand dunes. There's a lot of paleontology in the city.
Paleontologists can see how dinosaurs lived with the help of fossil footprints.
There are tracks that are old. That is an animal's movement. Tracks are usually the only evidence that we have of dinosaurs' behavior.
sauropods had to eat to maintain their size, so their behavior may have involved munching their way through their lush, green world.
There's a chance they might have been doing the same thing.
The story was adapted for the internet by the author.
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