Archive for January 6th, 2013

Fossil scars capture dinosaur headbutts

With domed heads and thick, bony skull protuberances, pachycephalosaurids are well known by seven-year-olds and palaeontologists alike. The dinosaurs are thought to have used their thick domes to headbutt each other, perhaps as part of courtship behaviour. But whereas children recreating these vicious displays simply ram plastic models of the animals together in a straight […]