One giant step: first known T rex footprints found in North Dakota
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"One giant step: first known T rex footprints found in North Dakota" is generating significant coverage in the Science category, with 5 articles from 5 distinct sources tracked by PULSE so far.
Outlets currently covering the story include IFLScience, Space Daily, Newser and KCCI. PULSE measures a story's velocity from how quickly new articles appear and how many independent newsrooms join the coverage.
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Generated by PULSE's extractive engine from coverage metadata only — no AI-written claims. Updated 43d ago.
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Coverage (5)
- World's First Adult T. Rex Trackway Discovered By High School Teacher, We Could Scrap The Leap Second As Early As Next Month, And Much More This Week IFLScience · 46d ago
- Four giant three-toed prints found in 2025 near Marmarth, North Dakota turned out to be the first trackway ever attributed to an adult T. rex, and the 66.5-million-year-old sequence records a 13-foot stride Space Daily · 46d ago
- T. Rex Footprints Are a Discovery Newser · 46d ago
- First-ever adult Tyrannosaurus rex trackway discovered in North Dakota badlands KCCI · 46d ago
- One giant step: first known T rex footprints found in North Dakota The Guardian · 46d ago
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