Acrotholus audeti Archives - Teaching Kids News Readable, teachable news. Mon, 27 May 2013 12:24:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://teachingkidsnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-TKN_square_blk-32x32.jpg Acrotholus audeti Archives - Teaching Kids News 32 32 New Species Of Dinosaur Found In Alberta https://teachingkidsnews.com/2013/05/26/3-new-species-of-dinosaur-found-in-alberta/ Mon, 27 May 2013 00:48:40 +0000 https://teachingkidsnews.com/?p=10502 A dome-headed dinosaur skull found in southern Alberta is helping scientists rethink some of their ideas about dinosaurs.

The skull was found in 2008 by a team of scientists led by Dr. David Evans of the Royal Ontario Museum.

The skull is about 85 million years old.

The top of the skull is made of a dome-shaped mass of solid bone about 10 centimetres thick.

This means the dinosaur belonged to a group of dinosaurs called pachycephalosaurs (“thick-headed lizards”).

The scientists compared the skull to all of the known pachycephalosaur specimens in the world – about 600 of them.

They learned that there are 16 different species within that group, and the skull discovered in Alberta belongs to a species that has never been seen before.

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