Triceratops Was A Social Animal, Group Of Dinosaur Fossils Suggests
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0324081431.htm
Awesome! It's been long speculated that T.horridus juveniles traveled in groups and now we have proof! Wish I could go down there to see the fossils myself.ScienceDaily (Mar. 24, 2009) — Until now, Triceratops was thought to be unusual among its ceratopsid relatives. While many ceratopsids—a common group of herbivorous dinosaurs that lived toward the end of the Cretaceous—have been found in enormous bonebed deposits of multiple individuals, all known Triceratops (over 50 in total) fossils have been solitary individuals.But a new discovery of a jumble of at least three juveniles the badlands of the north-central United States suggests that the three-horned dinosaurs were not only social animals, but may have exhibited unique gregarious groupings of juveniles.
"This is very thrilling," says Stephen Brusatte, an affiliate of the American Museum of Natural History and a doctoral student at Columbia University. "We can say something about how these dinosaurs lived. Interestingly, what we've found seems to be a larger pattern among many dinosaurs that juveniles lived and traveled together in groups."
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