Dinosaur skull discovered in Queensland belonged to sauropod that lived almost 100m years ago
A 95m-year-old dinosaur skull discovered in Winton,
The study’s lead researcher, Dr Stephen Poropat of Curtin University, said it was “really amazing to be able to find a skull at all – they’re quite rare, and even more so to get so much of one that had been preserved”. “They would have been a good target for a predatory dinosaur or even a scavenging animal,” Poropat said. “They would have looked at a sauropod carcass and [thought]: ‘The easiest thing to take away is their head.’”
skull enables scientists to recreate for the first time what the dinosaur’s face may have looked like.
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