Scientists reveal first evidence that Triceratops lived in herds

Despite movies like Jurassic Parkthey are depicted traveling in herds, but all known Triceratops fossils (more than 50 in total) have been found alone (or with several juveniles). Masu.

But a new study just completed in the Netherlands suggests that the iconic dinosaur species did indeed travel in herds.

A group of paleontologists from the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in the Netherlands traveled to the United States in search of Tyrannosaurus, but ended up making the discovery of a lifetime: a herd of five Triceratops.

The team was searching in Wyoming when they discovered the first Triceratops. And then they found another one. And one more thing. more.

The excavation was a project that lasted more than a decade and ultimately unearthed 1,200 bones and fragments of at least five people.

Fifteen years ago, scientists’ best guess was that traveling together “wasn’t something they did full time.”

But Dr. Jimmy de Rooy, who just published his research as a PhD at Utrecht University, said the materials unearthed in Wyoming were of “very high quality.”

“Study of the physical and chemical properties of hundreds of Triceratops teeth shows that it was a mobile entity, one that was the same in all five dinosaurs.”

A team of expert and volunteer paleontologists and technicians spent years removing the remains from the quarry.

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“Details of the bone bed indicate that the five dinosaurs died together, probably stuck in a swamp,” the PhD student said. “They are in a thin layer of rock, and there are no bones of other species.”

“This allowed us to show that these triceratops grow very slowly.

“These dinosaurs teamed up at least occasionally, which led to all sorts of new questions, like ‘How complex exactly was this social behavior?'”

Professor Anne Schulp, De Rooy’s supervisor, proudly stated, “The world’s largest Triceratops has now been discovered at the National Museum of Natural History in the Netherlands.”

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De Rooy’s research led not only to a paper, but also to an entire exhibition surrounding his herd research. This summer, a free national exhibition will be held in five of his cities in the Netherlands, and in October at the Naturalis Museum.

“The five Triceratops will be exhibited together as they lived and died 67 million years ago.”

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