Small predatory dinosaurs that gained notoriety for a scene in the movie Jurassic Park, in which they hunt in packs like wolves, are probably misunderstood, new evidence unearthed in China suggests.
The latest dromaeosaur footprints found in Gulin county, Sichuan province Men's Nike Air Max 1 Mars Stone UK , show that these dinosaurs might have acted alone sometimes, instead of hunting in groups.
About 100 million years ago, after a heavy meal, these aggressive hunters left a set of messy footprints on a 7 square meter piece of land.
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Xing Lida, a PhD candidate at the School of Earth Sciences and Resources at China University of Geosciences in Beijing, arrived at the excavation site soon after residents reported the findings to him.
"With a body size no larger than that of a sheep, the dromaeosaurs' footprints are hard to preserve because they are too shallow, which makes them weather away easily Men's Nike Air Max 97 Obsidian Red Blue UK ," Xing said.
In July, Gulin residents found a 69-meter-long track composed of about 80 dinosaur footprints, which later proved to be the longest track of predatory dinosaur footprints found in East Asia.
After this, the residents searched meticulously for dinosaur prints before finding the new site in a forest 3 km from the track.
"The footprints can provide us with more information about the Cretaceous dinosaurs that lived 100 million years ago, because well-kept dinosaur bones from this period are rare Women's Nike Odyssey React Desert Sand Sail Pink UK ," Xing said.
"Based on these newly unearthed prints, we can see that dromaeosaur may sometimes have acted alone, different from our previous understanding," he said.
Further research will be carried out after experts take the prints to laboratories.
This is the sixth dromaeosaur footprint site found in China, following two in Shandong province nike m2k tekno uk , one in Sichuan, one in Gansu and one in Hebei.
"Worldwide, there are only a dozen footprint fossils of this kind, as it is so difficult to discover the prints of such small dinosaurs," Xing said.
Peng Guangzhao nike ashin mdern lx uk , deputy director of the Zigong Dinosaur Museum in Sichuan, suggested that the local government build a museum and geological park to protect the footprints.
RIO DE RANEIRO， Aug. 14 (Xinhua) -- As a 41-year-old woman， Oksana Chusovitina from Uzbekistan still enjoys the gymnastic competitions and even eyes the 2020 Tokyo Olympics， which would be her eighth Games.
Finishing seventh in the vault final at Rio 2016 on Sunday， Chusovitina received a message from her teenage son.
"He said he was proud of me，" said Chusovitina， who kept extending her career for her son and for herself.
"I just love this sport. I still like to train and compete. That's why I still go on. My biggest goal in this competition is to make it to the vault final，" said Chusovitina after training at Rio Olympic Arena last Thursday.
Competing with the young girls didn't bother her and she did manage to qualify for the vault final as the fifth qualifier.
"If they gave a few more marks for age， it would have been great. Otherwise， we're all equal and we just have to compete with each other as equals，" she said.
Chusovitina said she felt great after the final and her body didn't feel any pain.
She decided to try to continue her career as a gymnast for another four years until the Tokyo Olympics， but she hadn't told her decision to her son.
"He hasn't known yet that I'm going to compete，" said Chusovitina. "He would be disappointed."
"He always says， 'Mom， don't do complicate things. Be careful. Don't jump. Sleep well'."
However， Chusovitina felt that she was both mentally and physically fit for competing. In the final on Sunday， she even managed to do a routine with the highest difficulty score of 7.0 points.
"In general， I like to try new things so that's why I decided to try the vault，" she said.
ERBIL, Iraq, Sept. 26 (Xinhua) -- Iraq's Kurdish President Masoud Barzani on Tuesday called for dialogue with Iraqi central government and neighboring countries, as Baghdad threatened to suspend all international flights to the Kurdish region.
Barzani said in an evening speech that governments of Iraq and neighboring countries need to continue the dialogue with the Kurdish region nike air vortex uk , instead of raising voice or issuing threats.
The Kurdish leader vowed the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region will not close the door for dialogue, while urging Baghdad and neighboring countries like Turkey and Iran to respect the will of the Kurdish people.
Meanwhile, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Tuesday attended a cabinet meeting in Baghdad to discuss the the Kurdish referendum held on Monday to seek separation from Iraq.
Abadi told a press conference after the meeting that Baghdad will not negotiate over the referendum's outcome with the Kurds.
Initial poll results showed that at least 93 percent of Iraqi Kurds supported independence of the Kurdistan region from Iraq, despite strong pressure and opposition from the Iraqi government and the international community at large.
Abadi added that his cabinet has made a decision that if the Kurdish region does not hand over the control of all its airports to the central government within three days, all the international flights to and from the region will be suspended.
A statement issued by the Prime Minister's office said that if the condition is not met nike air safari uk , Baghdad will start the flight ban on September 29.
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