Bony-Skulled Texacephale Langstoni Discovered In Texas
Monday, April 19, 2010 - 12:29
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Paleontologists have discovered a new plant-eating dinosaur that live 70 to 80 million years ago. The new species, Texacephale langstoni, was about as big as a medium sized dog. The fossils represent a new genus of pachycephalosaur, a group of bipedal, thick-skulled dinosaurs. Researchers discovered two skull fragments in Big Bend National Park in southwest Texas in 2008 and compared them to dozens of fossils from related species found in Canada and Montana. The new species is one of about a dozen known to have solid lumps of bone on top of their skulls, which researchers speculate was probably used to ram one another head-on in a manner similar to modern-day musk oxen and cape buffalo. read more