The newly discovered tracks level out that one in every of the animals was giant whereas the different one was smaller.

The fossilized footprints were found in modern-day Germany and have offered researchers a great deal of information on what type of dinosaurs used to live in the area – theropods. However, researcher Pernille Troelsen, who earned her master’s degree in biology from the University of Southern Denmark in June, decided to study the two tracks preserved in a silty mudstone layer. They were in no hurry, they nearly strolled along, leaving their footprints in the wet sand, researchers said. It was notably slow for a carnivorous dinosaur that can run with more than 40 km/hour. There were 50 footprints in all. 50 km from Hannover. The two might be a parent and a young.

Further analysis suggests the animals stood about 5.2 feet (1.6 meters) and 3.6 feet (1.1 m) at hip height, for the large and small dinosaur, respectively, and were likely a species of meat-eating dinosaur within theMegalosauripus genus. For more than 200 years footprints and tracks of footprints have been found here.

It’s worth mentioning that the little dinosaur sometimes crossed its legs while walking along the beach, however Troelsen could not offer a definitive reason why. She said that she being a biologist helped her get new insights into the prints than the rest of her colleagues who are paleontologists.

Troelsen explained that “As a biologist, I can contribute with knowledge about behavior of the individual animals”, knowledge that geologists don’t access quite as easily.

The larger dinosaur feet is roughly measured to be a U.S. men’s size 15 shoe where the smaller dinosaur’s footprint is comparable to a U.S. men’s size 6 shoe.

More studies have shown that dinosaurs have hunted together, taken care of their offspring, as well as even had a similar set of social rules regarding our concept of babysitting. They were of approximately same size as the velicoraptor, known by many from the film Jurassic Park. Especially England, Northern Germany and Spain host hundreds of footprints from carnivorous dinosaurs, aged 140-145 million years old – all from the same geological period as the footprints, examined by Pernille Venø Troelsen. The small one occasional crossed its legs on the way, possibly dealing with slippery conditions, strong winds, or simply because it wanted to stick close to the larger one.

The story of these two is yet to be deciphered but Troelsen says that this clearly illustrates that they are social animals but it is still unclear if the footprints were made during the same timeline.

However, it can not be determined whether the tracks from the small one and the big one were created at the same time.