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A Dinosaur Smaller than a Meter Had Its Head in the Shape of a Dome Before It Finished Growing and Preserved Hands and Tail Almost Never Found in the Group
A small dinosaur found in the Gobi desert revealed parts of the body that almost never appear in the fossil record of its relatives. Zavacephale rinpoche lived about 108 million years ago and preserved more than half of the skeleton, including skull, hands, tail and gastrolytes. Still young, he already had the characteristic bone dome of the...
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A small dinosaur found in the Gobi desert revealed parts of the body that almost never appear in the fossil record of its relatives. Zavacephale rinpoche lived about 108 million years ago and preserved more than half of the skeleton, including skull, hands, tail and gastrolytes. Still young, he already had the characteristic bone dome of the...