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This AI App Can Tell Which Dinosaur Made a Footprint

Summary by Science Daily
Dinosaur footprints have always been mysterious, but a new AI app is cracking their secrets. DinoTracker analyzes photos of fossil tracks and predicts which dinosaur made them, with accuracy rivaling human experts. Along the way, it uncovered footprints that look strikingly bird-like—dating back more than 200 million years. That discovery could push the origin of birds much deeper into prehistory.

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An application based on artificial intelligence made it possible to advance the identification of dinosaur footprints created millions of years ago.The development came from a study led by the University of Edinburgh, in collaboration with European research centers, and provides new clues on the early evolution of these animals and birds.The research, published in the journal PNAS, was funded by the BMBF Innovation Fund: Data-X, the Helmholtz RO…

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