We believe that these dinosaurs were very communicative. They even produced and perceived low-frequency sounds like those made by elephants, which travel several kilometers and are imperceptible to humans, says palaeobiologist Angel Alejandro Ramirez.
“We know that they had ears with the ability to receive low-frequency sounds, so they must have been peaceful but talkative dinosaurs. Some paleontologists theorize that they emitted loud sounds to scare off carnivores or for reproduction purposes, which suggests that the crests wore bright colors,” said Ramirez.
The skull of the new dinosaur in Mexico and its distinctive Tlatolophus crest bone. (Juan Miguel Contreras, technical photographer, Institute of Geology /
The dinosaur may have been quite talkative.
Scientists discovered a new species of dinosaur called the Tlatolophus galorum.
(Image credit: Luis V. Rey)
Paleontologists discovered fossils of a plant-eating dinosaur that belonged to a previously unknown species, one that was likely talkative, based on the ear structure, which would ve been adept at picking up low-frequency sounds.
The tail of the dinosaur, which lived 73 million years ago, was first discovered in 2005 in the Cerro del Pueblo Formation near Presa de San Antonio in Coahuila, northern Mexico, according to a new study describing the findings.
About eight years later, paleontologists from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) in Mexico and the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) worked together to recover the tail and any other remains. They needed to quickly rescue the tail that was protruding from the surface of the Earth, which was exposed to rain and erosion, according to the s