Category Archives: horned dinosaur
Social Media, Preprints, and a Dinosaur Tooth
Welcome, Wendiceratops!
It’s a very exciting time to be a paleontologist interested in horned dinosaurs. New species are being described at an incredible rate. But, it’s not the fact that they are new that’s important–it’s what the fossils say about the evolution, anatomy, and … Continue reading
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inThe Curse of the Horned Dinosaur Egg
Horned dinosaurs (ceratopsians) just can’t catch a break when it comes to their fossilized eggs. The first purported examples turned up in Mongolia during the 1920s, attributed to Protoceratops. A few unlucky “Protoceratops” eggs were fossilized next to the jaws of another dinosaur (Oviraptor, which … Continue reading
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Posted by Aves, Bird, birds, Ceratopsia, ceratopsian, CT scanning, CT scans, Digitization, dinosaurs, eggs, horned dinosaur, paleontology, PLOS One, Technology, vertebrate paleontology, Zoology
inAquilops, the little dinosaur that could
Today, several colleagues and I named a really cute little dinosaur–Aquilops americanus. At around 106 million years old, Aquilops turns out to be the oldest “horned” dinosaur (the lineage including Triceratops) named from North America, besting the previous record by nearly 20 … Continue reading
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