Scientists have launched an AI-powered app called DinoTracker that identifies dinosaurs from fossil footprints.
The system analyzes footprint shapes using eight key features and matches expert classifications about 90% of the time.
Researchers from the University of Edinburgh and Helmholtz-Zentrum trained the AI on 2,000 unlabelled footprints to avoid human bias.
Writing in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the team said the approach clusters prints more reliably than earlier methods.
The app lets users upload footprints, compare similar tracks, and test shape variations.
The results support earlier findings that some ancient tracks appear birdlike, though scientists caution they likely came from birdlike dinosaurs rather than true birds.
Scientists Launch AI App to Identify Dinosaurs From Footprints
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