Recently, Dinosaur tracks discovered on the Arabian Peninsula which considered left by a group of 11 plant-eaters that walked on four legs. Along with a lone dino that stood on its hind legs, the footprints were found on a coastal mudflat in Yemen. This discovery not only reveals the first of their kind in the Arabian region, but also reveals more about the herding behavior of the prehistoric creatures.
The assistant professor of paleontology at Ohio University in Athens, Nancy Stevens described that the footprints were left by a roving group of adults and children. Nancy also explained that shorter stride lengths are made by smaller individuals, and they took more steps to keep up with their elders.
It’s the sauropods. The researchers identify such creatures from their long necks and tails attached to a beefy elephant-like body. They described as being 10 to 13 feet high and could probably have more length than a bus. Based on the footprints left alongside an ancient dried-up waterway, the creatures are suggested were wandering for foods.
An ornithopod tracks was also found on the second set of tracks, which head in the opposite direction. The scientists say it is unlikely the sauropods were in danger or felt threatened if they crossed paths with the other dino, because it was also a plant eater. Nevertheless, Schulp says he would not be surprised to find remains of large carnivores nearby, because they typically lurked wherever potential prey hung out.
In relation to the mudflat walkers, some fossils are also found in Africa and the date back to the same epoch approximately 150 million years ago. This shows that these creatures were previously existed in eastern Africa and on what later became the Arabian Peninsula, a large land mass that later separated from Africa, with the Red Sea forming in between.
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