The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) is getting a prehistoric holiday gift. Philanthropists Eric and Wendy Schmidt have donated a nearly complete Pachycephalosaurus skull to the ...
Left lateral view of catalog number USNM PAL 803273, a Pachycephalosaurus skull, from the Late Cretaceous Period, Maastrichtian stage (approximately 68 to 66 million years ago), Hell Creek Formation, ...
Pachycephalosaurus bones are also hard to come by. Remains of this type of dinosaur account for less than one percent of fossils unearthed at the famous bonebed where the skull was discovered. For a ...
Matthew Carrano gently ran his finger along the toothy upper jaw of the Smithsonian Institution’s newest arrival, which was still sitting in its padded shipping crate. The dinosaur curator looked down ...