What New Dinosaur Aquilops Reveals About Dinosaur Migration

I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast · Mar 9, 2015 · 15m

Aquilops was tiny, but this new dinosaur species has a big story to tell about how dinosaurs moved between Asia and North America.

Aquilops lived in what is now Montana about 106 million years ago and was the oldest horned dinosaur found in North America at the time of its discovery. The fossil was unusual: researchers found only a skull, yet its distinctive beak and other skull features were enough to name a new species. The episode explores how scientists identified Aquilops, what its small size tells us about this early ceratopsian, and why its relationship to Asian horned dinosaurs…