Scientists have launched DinoTracker, an AI-powered app that identifies dinosaur footprints with about 90% expert-level accuracy.
Researchers from the University of Edinburgh and Helmholtz-Zentrum trained the system on 2,000 unlabelled footprint silhouettes.
The AI compares shapes using eight key features, including toe spread and heel position.
Users can upload footprints, explore similar tracks, and test shape variations.
The system supports earlier findings that some ancient tracks look birdlike, though scientists caution they likely came from bird-like dinosaurs, not true birds.
AI DinoTracker App Identifies Dinosaurs From Ancient Footprints
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