restitution Koreaceratops hwaseongensis artistLife in many parts of the Korean peninsula is harsh, difficult and tense continuous threat of conflict. Life in the region was also difficult over 100 million years ago, when dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures fought every day of their lives. Scientists have now gained a new perspective in life at that time with the discovery of a fossil of Seoul.
Small dinosaur fossils is called Koreaceratops. Michael Ryan, curator and head of vertebrate paleontology at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, is coauthor of the study of the fossil and described appearance probably the creature.
"Koreaceratops would have been a small herbivorous dinosaur (1.2 m in height)." So he ate plants. If you can imagine how big a Triceratops looked like, you took off the luxury and the horns and decreased below, it is little seemingly Koreaceratops. It has a very face resembling parrots, short but deep enough. On the upper and lower jaws, it actually has a beak before its jaws. "It has teeth behind those, but on the front there is a very similar to a bec turtle or a beak Parrot, beak" he said.
Like the more familiar Triceratops, Ryan explains Koreaceratops lived much earlier and seems to be the precursor for larger cousin.
"It occurred some 100 million years ago." Triceratops took place approximately 65 million years ago. And it is approximately the size of a dog of Labrador. If you reduced that low luxury on Triceratops is only a little ' Beatles' (referring to cutting hair worn by iconic 1960s rock band) "brow projecting posteriorly and deleted the horns above the eyes, very well is that little Koreaceratops looked like," he said. "
The specimen is the first horned dinosaur discovered on the Korean peninsula. Dinosaur fossils were generally not found in Korea South. Discoveries frequently asked were dinosaurs and fingerprint eggs.
The researchers were looking for evidence of the evolution of smaller animals and more in Asia has found that the largest specimens found in North America. Michael Ryan of Cleveland Museum explains Koreaceratops fits into this gap.
"What makes Koreaceratops is fills a gap of a missing 20 million years between last specimens of Asia and the first ceratopsian North America wide fuselage", he said.
Small plant food dinosaur remains were not complete.
"The specimen is partial skeleton less head sadly discovered close to a local reservoir in and around South Korea.". "It was a series of large blocks which were collected in a career," said Ryan.
But what was recovered revealed many Koreaceratops features. The creature was a biped that can move quickly. The small front arm could keep plants while he ate. Its tail is shorter than most of his parents, the length of its body. But the tail was a unique form.
"We have the spine, hips, legs as well as most of the tail down." And the tail is unique.
There are a series of large spines called neural arches project from the top of the tail would have in fact supported a small structure resembling collar, or indeed a relatively greater collar structure like running in the tail, "said."
That the structure could have been brilliantly coloured so that the tail was moved, he could have emerged as a flag to signal others species and eventually to attract mates. The structure can have also helped to cool the animal and the tail could also contributed the dinosaur swim. Researchers believe that he spent part of his hunting time for aquatic food.
Koreaceratops discovery analysis results were recently published in the journal Naturwissenschaften Online Edition: natural sciences.
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