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Parasaurolophus Facts
Parasaurolophus was a duck-billed dinosaur with a long, hollow head crest it may have used to make trumpeting sounds.
- Crests on dinosaurs like Parasaurolophus may have produced loud, resonating calls.
- Parasaurolophus's hollow head crest could have functioned like a trumpet.
- Parasaurolophus means 'near crested lizard'. It was a Late Cretaceous herbivore from North America — had a long, hollow tube-like head crest.
- Parasaurolophus means 'near crested lizard'. It was a Late Cretaceous herbivore from North America — produced low resonant sounds from its crest.
- Parasaurolophus means 'near crested lizard'.
- Parasaurolophus had a long, hollow crest on its head.
- Parasaurolophus may have trumpeted through its crest.
- Parasaurolophus may have honked through its long crest.
- The acoustics of the Parasaurolophus crest have been modelled to estimate the sounds it could make.
- Parasaurolophus was a herbivore hadrosaur from the Late Cretaceous.
- The name Parasaurolophus means 'near crested lizard'.
- Fossils of Parasaurolophus have been found in North America.
- Parasaurolophus lived during the Late Cretaceous in what is now North America.
- Resonance modelling suggests Parasaurolophus could produce deep, low-frequency calls.