BC Researchers Confirm Footprints of Three-Toed Dinosaur With Club-Like Tail

BC Researchers Confirm Footprints of Three-Toed Dinosaur With Club-Like Tail
Royal BC Museum fossil preparator Calla Scott, left, and former University of Victoria MSc student Teague Dickson apply consolidants to the type specimen of Ruopodosaurus before making a silicone mould in August 2024. The Canadian Press/HO Royal BC Museum
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Armoured dinosaurs with clubbed tails once roamed in what is now northeastern British Columbia, a new study suggests, leaving three-toed footprints across the landscape when the Rocky Mountains were still in their infancy.

The study published this month in the peer-reviewed Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology analyzed fossilized footprints dating back about 100 million years in the Tumbler Ridge area, northeast of Prince George, as well as northwestern Alberta.