purplecat: Gif of running "pointy sauruses" (General:Dinosaur)
purplecat ([personal profile] purplecat) wrote2023-12-22 05:03 pm
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Fossil Friday


Front view of a knobbly long snouted creature that you could imagine to be a dragon skull.
Image stolen shamelessly from The Great Dinosaur Discoveries by Darren Nash.


Dracorex is a Pachycephalosaur from the late Cretaceous. The spectacular skull was first described 2006.
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[personal profile] spiralsheep 2023-12-22 05:55 pm (UTC)(link)
What a handsome baby! If you've got to be a herbivore then run fast and headbutt effectively imo.

Did you know that deer antlers, the fastest growing animal tissue on earth, evolved from a form of bone cancer (osteosarcoma)?

Also, because I can:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetoceras
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[personal profile] bunn 2023-12-23 02:18 pm (UTC)(link)
THAT'S A DRAGON.

Well, I guess not really, but honestly if someone dug up one of those and came to the conclusion 'that's a dragon' without other information to work on, you could hardly blame them.
Edited 2023-12-23 14:19 (UTC)
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