Centrosaurus had the first well-documented case of malignant bone cancer in a non-avian dinosaur. (Fred Wierum via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0)
Smithsonian Magazine has a list of the top 10 dinosaur discoveries of 2020. What with the pandemic and all, 2020 has been a horrible year for most of us. However, science matches on and while the vaccine is the biggest scientific advance of 2020, there were a handful of important dinosaur discoveries this year.
- Tiny Fuzzball Shows How Dinosaurs Started Small
- Winner By a Tail (Spinosaurus was a swimmer)
- Dinosaurs Suffered From Cancer, Too
- Dinosaurs Weren’t in Decline When the Asteroid Hit
- Taking a Long Swim (Duckbills in Morocco)
- Baby Titans Had Tiny Horns (Titanosaur babies had horns)
- Were Dinosaur Eggs Soft?
- Enter the Wonderchicken (Origins of flight)
- The Hunt for Dino DNA (Chemical signatures of DNA in hadrosaur bones?)
- Polar Dinosaurs Remained Year Round
