Posted on 03/24/2009 11:20:12 AM PDT by Soothesayer
Three juvenile Triceratops, a species thought to be solitary, died together in a flood and now have been found in a 66 million-year-old bone bed in Montana, lending more evidence to the idea that teen dinosaurs were gregarious gangsters.
Triceratops were ceratopsids, herbivorous dinosaurs that lived until the the very end of the Cretaceous Period. They have been found in enormous bone beds of multiple individuals, but all known Triceratops fossils up to now have been solitary individuals.
In fact, Triceratops is one of the best-known of all dinosaurs, with more than 50 total specimens discovered, so it looked pretty certain that they were anti-social and avoided hanging out with their own kind.
However, the new discovery of a jumble of at least three juveniles in the famous Hell Creek Formation suggests that the three-horned Triceratops were social, or at least the juveniles were, revealing something about their behavior - a feature that is notoriously hard to discern from fossils.
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Were they wearing leather jackets?
Those pesky Amish dinos.
How did they know the dinos were a gang? Did they have MS-13 tats on them?
Angry youtasaurs BTTT.
When I read the headline, my first thought was it was something about the Senate Democrats.
Still could be.
I’d hate to see the gang initiation ceremony.
The Dinosaur Song ~Heywood Banks
Paleozoic, Mesozoic, Cenozoic,
Don’t ya know it’s funny how the time goes by
Seems like only yesterday we slithered out of the sea
And now we got to wear a suit and tie
For fifty-seven million years the dinosaurs ruled the land
But now they’re dead and that’s just fine you will conclude
Now I’m not saying they weren’t real nice,
Once you finally broke the ice,
But some of them were really rude!
Oh, way out in Montana, although not very recently
Where the Stegosaurus grew and grew
Everyone knew he had hips like a bird and bony plates along his back
But he never would admit it was true
Out of his tail grew great big spikes and if you mentioned it he would likely
Whip that tail at you angrily
‘Cause even though his brain was actually only the size of a walnut
He was just as proud as you and me
Tyrannosaurus Rex had a head four feet long
And it made it tough to buy a toupee
His teeth were seven inches long,
And he had little teeny arms
And it made it hard to brush every day
Triassic period Jurassic period Cretaceous comma
Hey there Mama, where did all the dinosaurs go?
Some say a meteor hit the Earth and killed them all for what it’s worth
But then again we don’t really know
I can now explain at last, it wasn’t ice or greenhouse gas
That stopped their little hearts from a-tickin’
A caveman who had happened by
Discovered when they were deep-fried
Dinosaurs tasted just like chicken!
Rendered extinct, no doubt, by their odd habit of wearing their pants around their knees and the resulting inability to escape predators.
Did they paint Penisorous pictures on their parents house
Yoots.
Not to poke holes in this story or anything but just because they were found dead together doesnt mean they lived together. Flood... could of certainly washed them all to the same site regardless of where they started.
Those are the Dude-asaurs.
my thoughts exactly...the animals killed crossing swift water all pile up downstream at the same snag.
Jets or Sharks?
Way to throw a wet blanket over our wanton speculation party, there, dude!
;^)
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