Baby dinosaur herd discovered in China


	Baby dinosaur herd discovered in China

JohnWaterman

9-20-2007 9:24 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/41a5eb21-59c0-41ac-90bc-e0199440cbbb/BBD1A7C4-D24C-4924-A7B9-D08CA0DBA005/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/news/2007/september/news_12395.html" href="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/news/2007/september/news_12395.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nhm.ac.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/news/2007/september/news_12395.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.nhm.ac.uk/img/6527FEEA-ED15-4AFD-B993-14385444BA2A" alt="A herd of six juvenile Psittacosaurus indicated by the letters.© The Palaeontological Association" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/news/2007/september/news_12395.html"><P class="caption imageCaptionWidth370">A herd of six juvenile <I>Psittacosaurus </I>indicated by the letters A-F. © The Palaeontological Association</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/news/2007/september/news_12395.html"><STRONG>A fossilised herd of baby <EM>Psittacosaurus</EM> dinosaurs has been discovered in China. This remarkable find sheds light on the life of these young dinosaurs, and reveals clues to how social behaviour evolved in their descendants.</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/news/2007/september/news_12395.html"><P>Six complete skeletons of baby dinosaurs were found lying side by side in the exact positions in which they died - they were killed suddenly by a volcanic mudflow.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/news/2007/september/news_12395.html"><P>The herd was excavated from the Yixian Formation in the northeast of the People's Republic of China. These are the same beds that have yielded the famous feathered dinosaurs.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/news/2007/september/news_12395.html">they were able to age the dinosaurs to between one and a half to three years old</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/news/2007/september/news_12395.html"><P>They could also tell that the six individuals came from more than one clutch of eggs and that they lived together in one social unit, like a crèche.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/news/2007/september/news_12395.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.nhm.ac.uk/img/245E2A01-0312-4272-8C14-1876353CC2F6" alt="Model of Psittacosaurus" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/news/2007/september/news_12395.html"><H5>Horn evolution clues</H5></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/news/2007/september/news_12395.html">young dinosaurs of different ages living together in this way, helps answer this question.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/BBD1A7C4-D24C-4924-A7B9-D08CA0DBA005/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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