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Plateosaurus: German scientists discover quirk in dinosaur babies – DW (English)
A young Plateosaurus skeleton dubbed “Fabian” is helping to shed light on what the long-necked plant-eaters looked like. In an “astonishing” discovery, researchers…
While many dinosaur babies looked wildly different from their parents, German researchers have discovered that some species actually looked like scaled-down copies of the adults.
Paleontologists at the University of Bonn made the discovery while examining the skeleton of a young Plateosaurus. The nearly-complete skeleton, dubbed “Fabian,” was found in 2015 in Switzerland (pictured above).
Researchers “surprisingly” discovered that the young specimen’s physical characteristics and body proportions…
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