

- Nov 10, 2014
Ankylosaur noses were cool
Or rather, their brains were cool thanks to their noses. The latest work from my dissertation has recently hit the net newswire. This time it's about ankylosaurs and their crazy long airways. We've known that ankylosaurs had crazy convoluted nasal passages since Witmer and Ridgely uncovered this in 2008. In that paper and subsequent talks it was hypothesized that this extreme elongation may have come about as a means of enhancing the thermoregulatory capacity of the nose by p