New Analyses Of Dinosaur Growth May Wipe Out One-third Of Species

Paleontologists Mark Goodwin and Jack Horner have dug for 11 years in Montana’s Hell Creek Formation in search of every dinosaur fossil they can find, accumulating specimens of all stages of development. Their new report on the growth stages of dome-headed dinosaurs shows that two named species are really just young pachycephalosaurs. They say that perhaps one-third of all named dinosaurs may not be separate species, but juvenile or subadult stages of other known dinosaurs.

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