Re: News: Dracorex hogwartsia; crumbling Dinosaur Monument

[Heather Yager <heather.yager@gmail.com>]

"Scientists believe the pachycephalosaurs, which were herbivores, used
their knobby heads to butt other dinosaurs."

Is this still the case?  I'd thought it was determined (or at least
voiced fairly strongly) that skull thickness wouldn't support
head-butting.

Heather Yager
A library science grad student.



On 5/22/06, bh480@scn.org <bh480@scn.org> wrote:
> From: bh480@scn.org
>
> In case these news items have not been mentioned yet:
>
> http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/newssentinel/14636951.htm
>  Dragonlike dinosaur skull donated to Children's Museum
> Associated Press
> INDIANAPOLIS - The 66-million-year-old skull of a dinosaur whose name was
> inspired by the Harry Potter series has found a permanent home in the
> Children's Museum of Indianapolis.
> Dracorex hogwartsia will be housed permanently at the museum, officials and
> paleontologist Robert Bakker were to announce Monday.....
>
>
> http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=272871
> Visitor Center Cracking up at Dinosaur Monument
> May 21st, 2006 @ 2:58pm
> VERNAL, Utah (AP) -- Without any money to replace it, the National Park
> Service is watching a visitor center over a dinosaur bone quarry slowly
> split apart, making do with patchwork repairs as the building slowly
> deteriorates. .....
>
>
> http://www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_3838577
> Utah paleontologists enter a new age of dinosaur discovery
> By Greg Lavine
> The Salt Lake Tribune
>
> GRAND STAIRCASE ESCALANTE NATIONAL MONUMENT - Halfway down a sandy slope,
> paleontologist Alan Titus drops to his knees and reaches out to delicately
> trace the fossilized skin of a 75 million-year-old dinosaur. ....
>
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