Scientists Are Using AI to Help Identify Dinosaur Footprints

Scientists Are Using AI to Help Identify Dinosaur Footprints

The Dinotracker app was trained on eight major characteristics of dinosaur footprints to quickly determine the species.

How AI Is Solving Some of Paleontology’s Biggest Dinosaur Footprint Mysteries

Learn how artificial intelligence is helping reinterpret dinosaur footprints, including bird-like tracks that blur the line between dinosaurs and early birds.

AI Is Solving a Dinosaur Mystery That Stumped Scientists for Decades

A new AI app lets users identify dinosaur footprints by uploading a photo, solving puzzles that have stumped scientists for decades. Even more surprising, it may have uncovered evidence that birds—or bird-like dinosaurs—appeared far earlier than anyone expected. AI Brings New Life to Ancient Dinosaur Footprints A new artificial intelligence (AI) app is offering a [...]

AI sheds light on mysterious dinosaur footprints | News | The University of Edinburgh

AI sheds light on mysterious dinosaur footprints rcrawfor Tue, 27/01/2026 - 14:27 A new app, powered by artificial intelligence (AI), could help scientists and the public identify dinosaur footprints made millions of years ago, a study reveals. Scan of a dinosaur footprint from the Jurassic age, Isle of Skye, Scotland. Credit Tone Blakesley. For decades, paleontologists have pondered over a number of ancient dinosaur tracks and asked themselve…