It has been reported that Australian paleontologists are using the modern technology of drones in order to find out some rare information about the ancient habitat of dinosaurs.

Xinhua news agency reported that the team of researchers is using the drones with sophisticated cameras to analyze fossilized footprints of the prehistoric creature which traversed areas in remote Western Australia (WA).

These highly modernized drones can get within a few feet of the ground and hover so that its camera can take some detailed pictures from the inaccessible or places that is quite difficult to reach. Scientists hope that those inaccessible places can have footprints of the prehistoric beasts.

The team from the University of Queensland has presently reached to halfway of their three-year project to document hundreds of dinosaur footprints left along the West Kimberley coast in the far north of WA around 130 million years ago.

Project head Steve Salisbury said this month's work majorly focused on using a drone to get a bird's eye view of the tracks.

“It's allowing us to get up above some of the more interesting track sites, and get lots of good video footage, which is really exciting, and lots of fun”, Salisbury told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

He further said that the drone will allow them to get a closer look that they needed. They will also be able to customize the imagery to the point they want.

Salisbury told that the vision will be able converted into 3D images using computers, which helps them to reveal the movement followed by dinosaurs.

The large circular imprints that were examined by the team were left by sauropods, whereas the other imprints are mostly of bird-like, three-toed theropod prints.