Dinosaurs! New Ones and New Finds!

I am still 5. Geordie is too.  We love dinosaurs!  They are big!  So we went to the Royal BC Museum that had a great dinosaur exhibit. All about new discoveries.  You know its going to be good when a big Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton greets you.

Psittacosaurus is this neat little fellow. Either that or I typed by sneeze.  He has the cutest cheek tusks.  They are a newer discovery.  See the little ones?  The display had great dioramas recreating a few different periods.  There is some amazing stuff coming out of China right now. These guys are believed to be a very early ancestor of triceratops even though the adult shown would be less than 2m long.

One of the newer discoveries is that dinosaurs may not have used some of their spikes, plates and bone for defense against predators or like the pachycephalosaur skull below to joust for females like mountain goats.  Instead of heat butts and defense it might be used to attract mates! Apparently the curvature of the bone would allow for only glances rather than crashing charges and the structure itself isn't built to withstand those sorts of impacts.

In conclusion, dinosaurs continue to surprise and kick ass in equal measure.