Palaeontology
Light shed on South Pole dog-sized dinosaurs
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T.K. RandallAugust 6, 2011 ·
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Small dinosaurs that lived near the south pole were able to survive through months of darkness.
Scientists attempting to unravel their secrets were surprised to find that these dog-sized dinosaurs were physiologically similar to dinosaurs that lived everywhere else. "If we were trying to find evidence of dinosaurs doing something much different physiologically, we would expect it to be found in dinosaurs from an extreme environment such as the South Pole," says Holly Woodward, a graduate student at Montana State University.
Dog-sized dinosaurs that lived near the South Pole, sometimes in the dark for months at a time, had bone tissue very similar to dinosaurs that lived everywhere on the planet, according to a doctoral candidate at Montana State University.
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Science Daily |
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