![]() ![]() Typically, ankylosaur fossils are found as individual specimens. ![]() ![]() If these bones are all from dinosaurs of the same species, it's possible they all died around the same time and so were perhaps living together as a herd.Ī team led by Gábor Botfalvai have recently published a paper investigating the evidence for social structures amongst one particular group of dinosaurs: the armoured, plant-eating ankylosaurs. These are sites where the bones of large numbers of dinosaurs are found in a single location and can contain the remains of thousands of individuals. Whether dinosaurs maintained their social distance or moved in herds has long been an area of debate.Įvidence for herding behaviour in large herbivorous dinosaurs has previously been found in the form of trackways and something known as Mass Death Assemblages (MDAs). ![]() Fossil bones are great for telling us how ancient animals looked, but not how they behaved. ![]()
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