The State of Headbutting Science

Some headbutting animals suffer brain damage from the shock; Plus Mississippi has a new most complete dinosaur; Histology can help tell a dinosaur fossil from other dinosaurs; and more.

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Dinosaur of the day Saurornithoides, a troodontid from Mongolia named in 1924 by Osborn in the same paper as Velociraptor.

In dinosaur news this week:

• Paleontologists reviewed what it means to have a dome-head and to headbutt like a pachycephalosaurid (and other prehistoric animals)
• Mississippi has a new most complete dinosaur, but the species is still a mystery
• Histology can tell us if a fossil belonged to a dinosaur or another type of animals

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