India, May 16 -- A dinosaur's 40-second journey more than 120 million years ago has been brought back to life by a University of Queensland-led research team using advanced digital modelling techniques.

Dr Anthony Romilio from UQ's Dinosaur Lab analysed and reconstructed the Phoenix Trackway, the longest documented set of footprints made by a predator walking on two legs in East Asia.

"For the first time this dinosaur's movements have been reconstructed step by step, revealing how it walked, changed pace and responded to its environment," Dr Romilio said.

"This sequence of 80 consecutive footprints extends for 70 metres in Sichuan Province, China and is a fleeting moment frozen in stone.

"Through digital animation, we can observe that...