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Be an Exhibition Explorer in Dinosaurs: Ancient Fossils, New Discoveries
INVESTIGATE: Do dinosaur trackways reveal behavior?
1. Examine the dinosaur trackways and draw them here.
2. How many dinosaurs do you think walked over this space?
3. Find the case with the right rear foot of the sauropod dinosaur Diplodocus.
When paleontologists look at tracks, why is it sometimes difficult to determine the
type of dinosaurs that left these prints?
Dinosaur trackers, like
detectives at an ancient crime
scene, study dinosaur footprints for clues to behavior.
4. Find the case with the only known T. rex footprint. Why are the footprints of this meat-eater so rare?
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INVESTIGATE: What purpose did dinosaurs’ horns and frills serve?
1. Pick a fossil skull with horns and frills. Draw it
in the box. Write what kind of dinosaur it is.
2. What do paleontologists think these horns and
frills were used for?
3. What modern animals does your fossil compare to? List them here.
4. What do scientists learn from studying these modern animals?
© 2005 American Museum of Natural History. All rights reserved.
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