David Varricchio of Montana State University in Bozeman and his colleagues found the jumbled remains of two juveniles and an adult together in what looks to be the remains of a custom-built hole in southern Montana. The discovery provides the first evidence that dinosaurs could burrow, and the best evidence yet for long-term parental care in dinosaurs, says team member Anthony Martin, an expert in animal traces at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. "I imagine that two juveniles curled up in a small space with an adult," he says.
The team has named the beast Oryctodromeus cubicularis, meaning 'digging runner of the lair'. It belongs to a group of small herbivorous dinosaurs, and lived 95 million years ago during the mid-Cretaceous period.
Wow! That is so cool!
Burrowing dinosaurs? I am such a geek for new dinosaur species, and this is the coolest one I have read about in some time. The more we learn about dinosaurs the easier it is to understand how they managed to hang in there for so many millions of years.
It also shows that even species with such incredible adaptability still had an expiration date, and that ours must be printed in the cosmos somewhere. The only question is how long can we manage to hang in their before we overstay our welcome?
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