Climbing?
Let's look closer. This foot belonged to an Allosaurus, which
wasn't good at climbing at all. It was good at kicking
and fighting! Look at the toes, and imagine the long claws that made
this foot a dangerous weapon.
Human
feet were made for walking. The heel bones are larger than in
most animals and offer solid support for walking and
running.
Dinosaur
fossils are rarely found in complete skeletons. Usually the bones are
scattered and paleontologists have to sort them and piece them back
together.
Here are two complete skeletonsóan ornitholestes dinosaur and a human. Although they lived over 70 million years apart, their bones have become jumbled. Can you sort the bones and drag them to the right place on each outline?
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