How did dinosaurs stand and move? Computer simulation and other methods have told us much about how dinosaurs did and did not move, but they have not yet reached their full potential.
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Palaeontologists have come a long way in the study of how dinosaurs stand and move. John R. Hutchinson and Stephen M. Gatesy present a case study in the shape of computer animations and simulations that have been used to recreate the locomotion of Tyrannosaurus rex. The big challenge remains that of narrowing down the many thousands of possible outcomes to those that produce a scientifically credible scenario, rather than a convincing-looking but largely hypothetical movie.