High School Teens Find Similar Duck Baby Dinosaurs

Although still in high school , Kevin Terris , The Webbs School student , beat foresight in finding fossil dinosaur paleontologist .

Terris find the dinosaur when the school held a joint excavation expert palaeontologist Raymond M Alf Museum of Paleontology . While paleontologists who a few days earlier had observed the same area and did not find anything , Terris managed to find valuable fossils .

Dinosaurs found Terris is a type of dinosaur which looked like a duck out of the side of his mouth that looks like a beak . Called Parasaurolophus , a dinosaur that lived 75 million estimated last year .

Terris is already discovered the fossils in 2009 . However , licensing efforts for excavation and trenching themselves and make the identification of new research results announced this time . The results of this research published in the journal PeerJ .

Dinosaurs actually found was a baby , an estimated size of 1.8 meters. Named Joe , this fossil is the youngest dinosaur fossils and complex in their group . As adults , the type of dinosaur is estimated to be up to almost 8 feet .

The first dinosaurs lived in the western region of North America . This species is known with characteristics similar tube -shaped bone at the top of his head . Scientists believe that the function on the sound part to help communication .

Commenting neighbor discovery , Terris said , " Initially I was interested in seeing a bone protruding from a stone . When we then look at the skull , I am very happy . "

Many adult Parasaurolophus dinosaur groups have been found . However , this finding is unique because it represents Parasaurolophus when young . When young , this dinosaur had only bumps on the head that would later develop into a similar organ in the head tube .

Andrew Farke of Raymond M Alf Museum of Paleontology and his team conducted scanning to reconstruct the vocal abilities that can be produced by infant and adult dinosaurs of this type .

"If this dinosaur adult can produce the sound of barking , the baby dinosaur produces chirp , " Farke said as quoted by the International Business Times , Tuesday ( 10/22/2013 ) .

" Together with its visual appearance , these traits may help the animals that live in the same area to know who the ' boss ' of the group , " said Farke .

Based on a sample of bone , Sarah Werning from Stony Brook University are also involved in the study , said that the dinosaurs died in a very young age . Dinosaurs had a circle of like the tree . At this dinosaur fossils , scientists have not found any loop .