But E. regalis, a so - called flat -
headed duckbill, does not have a hard, bony crest, making this first discovery of a soft tissue version all the more important for understanding dino behavior.
The team, which reports the find online today in Current Biology, points out that some
duckbills had bony crests on their
heads, which are easily preserved in fossil form, and that researchers had suggested functions for such crests ranging from sexual display to external olfactory organs.