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Skull of dinosaur with hollow tube on its head found for first time in a century – CNET

The duck-billed dinosaur Parasuaruraorlophus is best known for the tube that grows out of its head, and the well-preserved skull offers more clues about the crest’s…

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A reconstruction of the head of the Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus based on newly discovered remains.
Andrey Atuchin
A spectacularly preserved partial skull belonging to the rare dinosaur species Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus has been discovered and analyzed for the first time in 97 years. 
The skull, detailed in a new study in the journal PeerJ, shows off the intact structure of the creature’s signature tube-shaped nasal passage, offering new clues into the evolution of the bizarre crest, a subject…

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