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The Cretaceous plant-eating hadrosaurs, also known as ‘duck-bills’, are some of North America’s most common fossil dinosaurs.
Isolated skeletons are found all over the prairies, and hadrosaur bonebeds are known from several locations, ranging from Mexico to Alaska, including right here in the Peace country.
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One of these local bonebeds is now the subject of a recently published scientific paper that reveals new information about the dinosaurs that lived in this area.
This study was led by graduate student Bray Holland of Australia’s University of New England, and coauthored by members of the Boreal Alberta Dinosaur Project, which includes the Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum’s head curator Dr. Corwin Sullivan among other frequent collaborators.
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By Nicholas Carter DHT Dino News & Views
Fossilized dinosaur footprints can tell us a lot about the lives of the animals that left them. Speed, posture, social behavior, signs of injury, and the anatomy of the foot’s soft tissue can all be deduced from fossilized tracks.
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Several different types of dinosaur tracks are known from Alberta’s Peace region, including footprints left by small birdlike predators, ‘duck-billed’ hadrosaurs, and even tyrannosaurids. Eight well-preserved tyrannosaurid tracks in particular are the subject of a new publication led by grad student Nathan Enriquez from the University of New England in Armidale, Australia. The international team of coauthors, which form the Boreal Alberta Dinosaur Project, also includes Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum head curator Dr. Corwin Sullivan.