Showing posts with label Baryonyx walkeri. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Baryonyx walkeri. Show all posts

Wednesday, 16 January 2008

Baryonyx


Engineering techniques have shown an unusual British dinosaur Baryonyx walkeri fed on fish, despite it looking like a meat-eater. The dinosaur's skull bent and stretched in the same way as the skull of today's fish-eating crocodiles, even though it had clear differences in structure.

The early Cretaceous dinosaur was found in Surrey and lived at a time when the area was warmer and had lagoons. The research is published in the Journal of Vertebrate Palaeontology.