With similarities to chickens, saltwater crocodiles, and having super senses, researches have overlooked this dinosaur for too long.
A family of Thescelosaurus emerges from safety to forage in the forests of the Hell Creek Formation, 66 million years ago.wouldn’t have known that its world was about to change drastically. More specifically, that a seven-mile-wide asteroid barreling toward Earth would soon end life as we knew it at the time. The Age of Dinosaurs was about to come to an abrupt end.in western North America.
It lived in a coastal plain in western North America, where vegetation was plenty but so were predators. Smell would have been especially important for survival as its hearing was less than optimal. Scent would have helped it escape the jaws ofand other predators. It would also have been important underground to identify its young and other family members when there was little light to see.
We don’t have any preserved burrows to prove that it lived underground, likely because its environment, which was much warmer than it is today, made such preservation difficult. Button says that it might have been adapted to live somewhere in between, like a Nile crocodile, for example, which digs deep holes but then uses them primarily to shelter its young.
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