{"id":844651,"date":"2026-09-11T23:24:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T23:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/844651\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T23:24:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T23:24:11","slug":"t-rex-footprints-are-a-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/844651\/","title":{"rendered":"T. Rex Footprints Are a Discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"storyParagraph\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                        A T. rex apparently went for a stroll through what is now North Dakota, and scientists just traced its steps. Researchers report finding the first known series of footprints from an adult Tyrannosaurus rex: a 23-foot-long trackway of four three-toed prints discovered in the Hell Creek Formation and dated to about 66.5 million years ago, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/sep\/11\/tyrannosaurus-rex-footprints-north-dakota\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Guardian<\/a> reports. Until now, only two adult T. rex footprints had been confirmed\u2014in New Mexico and Montana\u2014and neither showed how the animal was moving, per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/minnesota\/news\/adult-tyrannosaurus-rex-trackway-north-dakota\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CBS News<\/a>.&#13;\n                                    <\/p>\n<p class=\"storyParagraph\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                        Each print measures roughly 3 feet long, with a stride of about 13 feet\u2014suggesting the animal was moving at a pace similar to a fast human walk, around 3.5mph to 4.5mph. Scientists used high-resolution 3D scans to document and re-create the tracks, per the Guardian, which they say capture a rare &#8220;moment of behavior.&#8221; Three of the prints will be airlifted to the Denver Museum of Nature and Science later this year.&#13;\n                                    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; A T. rex apparently went for a stroll through what is now North Dakota, and scientists just&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":844652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[2807,79,210947,85915,201],"class_list":["post-844651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-north-dakota","tag-science","tag-t-rex","tag-tyrannosaurus-rex","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=844651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/844652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}