SYDNEY: Drones and dinosaurs may seem like an unlikely combination, but scientists in Australia are using present-day technology to track pre-historic footprints. The prints were laid in Western Australia about 130 million years ago.
Taking advantage of modern technology, a team of paleontologists from the University of Queensland is using low-flying drones to get a bird’s eye view of dinosaur tracks which are preserved in stone in a 200km stretch of the West Kimberley coast. This vantage point is hugely beneficial, as the footsteps are often hidden by jagged rock and are therefore difficult to identify.
