Animals scary looking but harmless this never lived in large numbers throughout easternAsia. They have a parrot-like beak sharp to cut the foliage, and long arms to pull a treebranch. They had to use almost all his time on when walking to chew plants, becausethey require a lot of food to have enough power.
The experts argued that they may gather in large groups to scare the attacker.
Dino Info
Length: The length of about 2 meters; shoulder height of 1 meter, weighs 50 pounds
Food: Plants that loud low
Defense: Strong and sharp beak, and perhaps expertise in group
Psittacosaurus is a very successful dinosaur, a nearly 90 percent of the fossil record insome parts of Mongolia. The fossils were also found in various places in China, also inThailand and Russia.
Other Facts
Psittacosaurus fossils first discovered in 1922, by the third expedition to the AmericanMuseum of Natural History in Mongolia, and is called one year later by experts from theUnited States Henry Fairfield Osborn.
Also found not far from other dinosaur skeleton, which was previously under somewhatdifferent Osborn. This second framework recently were classified again asPsittacosaurus.
Some fossil Psittacosaurus contain the smooth shiny pebbles, proving that dinosaursare intentionally swallowed stones to aid digestion. In the same way, birds such aspigeons and budgies now swallow pebbles to digest food.
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