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Did AI Just Identify The World’s Oldest Birds? Meet "DinoTracker", The App Of Ichnology’s Dreams

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“I think AI has a bright future in paleontology,” dinosaur expert Steve Brusatte told IFLScience.

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A new application, DinoTracker, uses artificial intelligence to identify the fingerprints of millions of years old dinosaurs. By analyzing a simple photo, this tool could not only solve paleontological puzzles, but also suggest that birds appeared much earlier than we thought.

A new application, driven by artificial intelligence (AI), could help scientists and the public identify traces of dinosaurs made millions of years ago, as revealed by a study by the University of Edinburgh (UK). The study, published in ‘PNAS’, was funded by the BMBF Project Innovation Fund: Data-X, the Helmholtz ROCK-IT project, the Helmholtz-AI NorMImag project, the National Geographic Society and the Leverhulme Trust. For decades, paleontolog…

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