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<\/p>\nRecent palaeontological research suggests that those spectacular crests that adorn the heads of the duck-billed type of dinosaur may have been used to communicate.<\/p>\n
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“The struc\u00adtures con\u00adtain ex\u00adtremely long, con\u00advo\u00adlut\u00aded na\u00adsal pas\u00adsages that loop up over the tops of their skulls. In the stu\u00addy, sci\u00aden\u00adtists used med\u00adi\u00adcal scans to peer in\u00adside these crests and re\u00adcon\u00adstruct the brains and na\u00adsal ca\u00advi\u00adties of four dif\u00adfer\u00adent lam\u00adbe\u00ado\u00adsaur spe\u00adcies,” reports World Science<\/a>.<\/p>\n Com\u00adput\u00ader mod\u00adels … sug\u00adgest that the crests could have been used to make low, ee\u00adrie bel\u00adlow\u00ading calls that could have been used in com\u00admu\u00adnica\u00adt\u00adion, per\u00adhaps to call for mates or warn oth\u00aders of preda\u00adtors.<\/p>\n The new study used used CT, or com\u00adput\u00aded to\u00admog\u00adra\u00adphy, scans, a meth\u00adod of ex\u00adam\u00adin\u00ading ob\u00adjects with X-rays and a com\u00adput\u00ader that builds a se\u00adries of cross-sec\u00adtion\u00adal scans.<\/p>\n The scans doc\u00adu\u00admented a del\u00adi\u00adcate in\u00adner ear that con\u00adfirms that the di\u00adno\u00adsaurs could hear the low calls produced by the crest, said [a member of the research team]. “We were sur\u00adprised to see just how large the cen\u00adters of the brain as\u00adso\u00adci\u00adat\u00aded with high\u00ader cog\u00adni\u00adtive func\u00adtions were … We sus\u00adpected that the crest\u00aded duck-billed di\u00adno\u00adsaurs used both vo\u00adcal and vis\u00adu\u00adal dis\u00adplays, but now we see that they had the brain pow\u00ader and hear\u00ading to pull off these be\u00adhav\u00adiors.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Recent palaeontological research suggests that those spectacular crests that adorn the heads of the duck-billed type of dinosaur may have been used to communicate. “The struc\u00adtures con\u00adtain ex\u00adtremely long, con\u00advo\u00adlut\u00aded na\u00adsal pas\u00adsages that loop up over the tops of their … Continue reading \n