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One reconstruction from the 'All Todays' section I thought was missing was a complete misidentification, leaving an opening for something astounding, but sadly, no.Related content
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This question has noting to do with the picture, but it's related to Pachycephalosaurs. I'm kind of skeptical that Stygimoloch and Dracorex are juvenile Pachcephalosaurus. Sure, the skulls do look familiar, and obviously in living animals, babies' bodies look completely different from when they were full grown. But did they do any tests on Stygi and Draco's skulls to see if they are juvenile Pachys? Like look at growth rings in the skulls to make sure?
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The horns that Stygimoloch and Dracorex have on their snouts and the back of their skulls match up in position to those that Pachycephalosaurus has. The spikes grew shorter as the dome grew in.
Due to theΒ plasticity of skulls, it wouldn't make much sense to look for growth rings within them.
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I see. But the next time I have a doctor's appointment, I'll have to ask if there's a way to tell age by looking at the skull.
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lol I have books where they thought that Majungatholus was the only gondwanan pachycephalosaur...but now we know it was a Abelisouroid
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Well actually majungatholus (abelisaroid) was renamed to majungasaurus.
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Actually, no, Majungasaurus is a synonym of Majungatholus.
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I thought Majungatholus had priority, but i see that the opposite is the truth
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