Flat Heads and Veggie Lovers

Two new delectable bits of news in the dinosaur world have come to my attention in the last week. First, the flat heads:

Pachycephalosaur Discovery

Most will remember the pachycephalosaurs as the dinosaurs with the dome-shaped heads that were ramming the trucks in 'The Lost World' and doing a significant bit of damage. It now seems that there were some members of this family who sported completely flat craniums. This is the sort of discovery which makes the paleontologists go right back to the drawing board, and it shows how dynamic a field dinosaur study really is. That we can know so much based on just the fossils alone is remarkable, but as always, it is all speculation that later finds can overturn.

The second bit of news regards the Falcarius, the first dinosaur found to have converted from a meat-eating diet to a vegetarian diet. Falcarius is the earliest known member of the therizinosaurs family, a plant-eating group of dinosaurs. The later ancestors in the family are more full-bodied, and would not be able to move at very high-speeds, while the Falcarius may have been liable to snatch up a lizard or two. Yet one more link the in the evolutionary chain of dinosaurs!

All in all, an amazing couple weeks for dinosaurs lovers!