Sentences with word «pachycephalosaur»

The work, presented this week at the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology's annual meeting in Raleigh, North Carolina, started with just one pachycephalosaur fossil.

On the basis of these examples, Peterson and Dischler speculate that the high - domed pachycephalosaurs with parietal injuries were side - bumping like mountain goats, and that the frontal injuries are indicative of bison - like wrestling.

The massively constructed skull domes of pachycephalosaurs are resistant to destruction, and are much more common than their relatively delicate skeletons — which resemble those of other small plant - eating dinosaurs.

In addition to Nasutoceratops, the collection includes a variety of other plant - eating dinosaurs — among them duck - billed hadrosaurs, armored ankylosaurs, dome - headed pachycephalosaurs, and two other horned dinosaurs, Utahceratops and Kosmoceratops — together with carnivorous dinosaurs great and small, from «raptor - like» predators to a mega-sized tyrannosaur named Teratophoneus.

Bone to pick Some paleontologists disagree that pachycephalosaurs rammed one another at all, and there is much skepticism over whether the lesions really are «butt prints».

May 7, 2013 — Scientists have named a new species of bone - headed dinosaur (pachycephalosaur) from Alberta, Canada.

Paleontologist Jack Horner of Montana State University examined bone fragments in the fossil dung — called a coprolite — and tentatively identified them as the remains of a thick - headed plant - eating dinosaur called a pachycephalosaur.

Scientists have named a new species of bone - headed dinosaur (pachycephalosaur) from Alberta, Canada.

Therefore, the researchers suggest that the pachycephalosaur fossil record can provide valuable insights into the diversity of small, plant - eating dinosaurs as a whole.

Fascinated by the presence of so many injuries, Peterson and Dischler produced a three - dimensional computer model of a pachycephalosaur skull and mapped injuries onto it.

Living proof The finding hinted that the pachycephalosaurs with differently shaped skulls were bumping heads in different ways.

But whereas children recreating these vicious displays simply ram plastic models of the animals together in a straight line, a study now suggests that pachycephalosaurs may have bashed one another in a number of different ways.

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