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