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Reconstructions Help Study Tracks Aug. 31, 2004 -- After 165
million years, dinosaurs again roamed the Big Horn Basin this
summer with a little help from the University of Wyoming Life-
sized reconstructions of both an adult and juvenile meat-eating
dinosaur assisted researchers and students to better understand
what made the thousands of tracks being investigated at the Red
Gulch Dinosaur Tracksite. The tracks were discovered in 1997 and
since then thousands more have been found at nearby sites. The
sites are among the world's most significant track finds, says
Brent Breithaupt, UW Geological Museum "Fossil remains of
dinosaurs are rare from the Middle Jurassic of western North
America because a large, shallow inland sea covered the area,"
"However, preserved footprints tell us many things that
fossilized bones and teeth may not, especially in regard to
activities and behavioral The tracks show there was a