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New Study Helps Explain How Dinosaur Skeletons Supported Massive Loads | Paleontology – Sci-News.com

A team of paleontologists and mechanical and biomedical engineers has compared CT scans of the fossilized bones of hadrosaurs and other dinosaurs with bones of extinct and living mammals and found that the dinosaur trabecular bone architecture was uniquely ca…

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A team of paleontologists and mechanical and biomedical engineers has compared CT scans of the fossilized bones of hadrosaurs and other dinosaurs with bones of extinct and living mammals and found that the dinosaur trabecular bone architecture was uniquely capable of supporting large weights (up to 47,000 kg) and different than that of mammals and birds.
Life reconstruction of Kamuysaurus japonicus, a species of hadrosaurid (duck-billed) dinosaur that lived some 72 million years ago (Cretaceous…

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