Madagascar Dinosaur Bone Is Most Massive Osteoderm Ever Found

ScienceDaily (Nov. 29, 2011) — What more can we learn about long-necked dinosaurs that we don't already know? A Macalester professor and her colleagues have found that Madagascar dinosaurs carried giant, hollow bones in their skin that may have helped them survive the harsh environments they inhabited. This discovery has shed new light on the anatomy and function of these bones in the biggest animals to ever walk on land.

Biology/Geology Prof. Kristi Curry Rogers is the 


lead author of a paper in Nature 

Communications about bizarre, gigantic bones that grow in the skin of Rapetosaurus, a species 

of huge plant-eating dinosaur from the island country located in the Indian Ocean off the 

southeastern coast of Africa.

"This is the biggest osteoderm ever found for any backboned-animal," said Curry Rogers, "The 

fact that it's hollow debunks all sorts of ideas about how these bones functioned in long-necked 

dinosaurs.

What I have understood is that new species of dinosaur is discovered by a teacher named 

Macalester and his colleagues in Madagascar. Ruin or artefact was only the head but 

apparently for the teacher is sufficient evidence to know that the dinosaur was huge. This 

makes changing the history of dinosaurs because many people thought that there was no more 

razes of dinosaurs, but in this century, showed that they were wrong, there are still new fossils 

that man has not come to find out.

Why I like this article?

For this article, shows people that not all dinosaurs have been discovered. And always, in the 

fate of the earth, we will discover unique dinosaur that neither the human imagination cannot 

imagine, as in the case of fossil dinosaur discovered in China that had only one finger, or the 

study of the tyrannosaurus was not a hunter and, as this case, arapetosaurio and the world's 

largest dinosaur, for now.

What connection have my life with this article?

I, since childhood, I was interested in dinosaurs and also want to be an archaeologist and I 

liked all types of excavations, from Fossil, to the remains of civilizations.

What Area  of Interactions is being used to view this article?

Environment: Because, it is talking about a fossil dinosaurs and dinosaurs is related to life science and environment means All living and non living things living in the Earth.

Where I get this information: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/11/111129125014.htm