Overview

• New digital search-image tools have led researchers to identify several more sites in Dinosaur Provincial Park with overlapping tracks of at least two herbivorous dinosaur species.
• The original PLOS One study described 13 ceratopsian prints and a probable ankylosaurid footprint uncovered during a July 2024 field course at the UNESCO World Heritage site.
• Two perpendicular tyrannosaur tracks found near the herd prints suggest possible stalking behavior but do not confirm an encounter between predators and prey.
• Paleontologists remain divided over certain track attributions, with some arguing that the suspected ankylosaur prints better match poorly preserved hadrosaur impressions.
• Researchers theorize that mixed-species herding may have functioned as a collective defense strategy similar to modern African wildebeest and zebra migrations.