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Tyrannosaurs were power-walkers

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Limb analysis suggests dinosaurs moved with short, fast strides.

The image of a Tyrannosaurus rex racing after a jeep in the 1993 film Jurassic Park inspired a generation's ideas about the extinct predator, but for decades studies have concluded that dinosaurs could not move quickly1,2,3.

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