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Saurolophus skin varied within species

Adam Khor · 2019-07-18 22:37:02

As any dino buff knows, there were at least two species of Saurolophus; one from North America and the other from Mongolia. Amazingly, fossilized skin has been found for both, and now a study finds that the scale pattern was actually quite different in both, otherwise similar species.…

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18-07-2019 11:37pm

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Adam Khor

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As any dino buff knows, there were at least two species of Saurolophus; one from North America and the other from Mongolia. Amazingly, fossilized skin has been found for both, and now a study finds that the scale pattern was actually quite different in both, otherwise similar species.

http://superoceras.blogspot.com/2012/02/saurolophus-skin-suggests-speciation.html

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