The well-preserved fossil along with anatomical features suggests that these dinosaurs likely spent part of their lives in underground burrows.
Millions of years ago, dinosaurs ruled the Earth. But not all were above-ground giants, some were small, and liked to spend their time in underground burrows.
, a genus of goat-sized dinosaurs that emerged around the end of the Late Cretaceous era in North America. This newly described species is a distant cousin of another dinosaur that lived partially underground. Named Willo , this dinosaur was also unearthed by North Carolina researchers.whose bones are more likely to fossilize, Fona’s complete skeletons suggest they died and were buried underground, possibly in their burrows.on the surface will often scatter, rot away, or become scavenged before burial and fossilization,” explained Haviv Avrahami, a Ph.D. student at NC State.
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