![]() The dinosaur weighed 80 tonnes and the simulation shows that it would have reached just over 2 m/s – about 5 mph. The study provides the first ever ‘virtual’ trackway of the dinosaur and disproves previous suggestions that the animal was inflated in size and could not have walked. The team laser scanned a 40 metre-long skeleton of the vast Cretaceous Agentinosaurus dinosaur, then used the N8HPC to simulate its walking and running movements and test its locomotion ability. Carmen Funes Museum, Plaza Huincal, Argentina.Scientists at The University of Manchester used the N8 Research Partnership High Performance Computing (N8 HPC) facility to simulate for the first time ever how one of the world’s largest dinosaurs would have walked. ![]()
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