This carnivore, Ceratosaurus, was smaller than other theropods like the T. rex, but its distinctive nasal horn left a lasting mark on pop culture.
. In the late Jurassic, Europe would have been pushed up against the eastern U.S. as part of the supercontinent of Pangea, so it's not impossible to imagine that some dino remnants ended up across the pond.was not among the last dinosaurs — those who would have fallen victim to the asteroid that barreled into our planet some 66 million years ago. Scientists still don’t exactly know why it went extinct.
, head curator of the Mace Brown Museum of Natural History in Charleston, South Carolina. One of which is the fact that, which was faster, bigger and better equipped to hunt large sauropods. As a result, says Persons, “competition might have been a factor.” But it might also have gone extinct naturally — many dinosaurs disappeared as new species were emerging during the Jurassic Period.
Still, there’s a good deal about Ceratosaurus that we don’t know, says Persons. We don’t know how aquatically adapted it was, or whether it regularly hunted in the water. We also don’t know how social it was compared to contemporaries like the. And that distinctive nasal horn that's reigned so prominently in popular culture? Well, that’s a mystery too. Paleontologists are still in the dark about whether it was used as a weapon against other dinosaurs or whether it was just for ornamentation.
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