The T. rex Experience at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science
Opening Feb. 11, the Denver Museum of Nature and Science is offering an in-depth exploration of the Tyrannosaurus Rex called SUE: The T. rex Experience. This interactive exhibit allows visitors to actually feel the texture of dinosaur skin and to hear the sounds of animals, plants and dinosaurs that lived during the late Cretaceous period, plus there will be a full-sized replication of the T. Rex in battle with the Edmontodaurus. It’s a clash of two titans planned to welcome you back to the Denver Museum of Nature and Science.
Tube-crested dinosaur skull found for 1st time in nearly 100 years
A team led by the Denver Museum of Nature and Science found the Parasaurolophus skull in the badlands of New Mexico. Author: Janet Oravetz (9News) Updated: 10:01 PM MST January 26, 2021
DENVER For the first time in nearly 100 years, a dinosaur skull belonging to the tube-crested dinosaur Parasaurolophus was discovered with help from a team of researchers from the Denver Museum of Nature and Science (DMNS).
Smithsonian Ecology Fellow Erin Spear, Ph.D. uncovered the rare specimen while exploring the badlands of northwestern New Mexico as part of a DMNS team in 2017 but the finding was just announced Monday in the journal PeerJ.
Scientists have found an exquisitely preserved skull of a herbivorous dinosaur species in New Mexico, known for its weird head adornment.
The skull belongs to the iconic tube-crested dinosaur Parasaurolophus, which lived during the Late Cretaceous period, about 76.5 million to 73 million years ago.
Parasaurolophus were herbivorous reptiles that sported trumpet-like nasal passages which they blew air into through the so-called tube on their head.
This particular skull belonged to one particular species of the Parasaurolophus genus – Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus.
The newly-revealed specimen would have been roughly 20 feet long (6.1 meters) and around 7.5 feet tall at the hip (2.3 metres) in its day.
Despite its extreme morphology, details of the specimen show that the crest is formed much like the crests of other, related duckbilled dinosaurs.
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Skull reveals evolutionary origins of tube-crested dinosaur s unusual airways
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Researchers say a new skull fossil of Parasaurolophus an example of which is pictured at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago has better revealed the structure of the dinosaur s head crest. Photo by Zissoudisctrucker/Wikimedia
Jan. 25 (UPI) It s been almost a century since paleontologists last unearthed a skull belonging to the tube-crested dinosaur
Parasaurolophus.
But thanks to a newly excavated fossil, scientists have gained fresh insights into the evolutionary origins of the species unusual tube-shaped nasal passage.
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Originally recovered from the badlands of northwestern New Mexico in 2017, the newly analyzed skull described Monday in the journal PeerJ suggests the crests of Parasaurolophus dinosaurs formed much the same as those of other crested species, such as duckbilled dinosaurs.