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3D scans show baby sauropods had a horn and binocular vision – Brinkwire
Sauropods large, four-legged, long-necked dinosaurs were born with a horn and binocular vision that disappeared as they matured, a study has found.
Experts took 3D scans of a rare, 80 million-year-old, 1.2 inch wide fossil skull of an unhatched dinosaur that was found preserved inside its egg in Patagonia, Argentina.
The team think that had it actually hatched the juvenile would have used its horn to help it crack its way out of its egg’s shell, or for defence or foraging.
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