Was Pachycephalosaurus A Carnivore? | Paleo Mysteries

There has been something of a niche paleo meme spread about online for a few years now – that the juveniles of the bone headed dinosaurs were omnivorous or potentially primarily carnivorous! That they had fangs in the front of their jaws for the task, making them particularly dangerous animals on top of their already dangerous domes. How much truth is there to this claim? __________________________________________________________________ Art in Thumbnail belongs to - __________________________________________________________________ ✅ PATREON ✅ ✅ STICKERS & SHIRTS ✅ ✅Facebook: ✅Twitter: ✅Instagram: @edgeonthetrail ✅ MUSIC ✅ “Unsolved Mysteries Theme” “Travelers Who Rest” - Stardust Crusaders OST “Thinking It Over” - Lee Rosevere “Cheerful Journey” - Stardust Crusaders OST “The Plot Lurking in the Midst” - Stardust Crusaders OST “Possesion” - Stardust Crusaders OST “In All Respects” __________________________________________________________________ If I’ve used something on my video that you don’t want me to use, PLEASE EMAIL ME first before flagging a video, I’m very reasonable and will take the video down to replace whatever image or video belongs to you. Email: expeditiondiscoveryguild@ __________________________________________________________________ RESEARCH Goodwin MB, Buchholtz EA, Johnson RE (1998) Cranial anatomy and diagnosis of Stygimoloch spinifer (Ornithischia: Pachycephalosauria) with comments on cranial display structures in agonistic behavior. J Vert Paleont 18: 363–375. Bakker RT, Sullivan RM, Porter V, Larson P, Saulsbury SJ (2006) Dracorex hogwartsia, n. gen., n. sp., a spiked, flat-headed pachycephalosaurid dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation of South Dakota. Lucas SG, Sullivan RM, eds. Late Cretaceous vertebrates from the Western Interior New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 35: 331–345. Galton PM, Sues H-D (1983) New data on pachycephalosaurid dinosaurs (Reptilia: Ornithischia from North America. Can J Earth Sci 20: 462–472. Gilmore, Charles W. (1931). “A new species of troodont dinosaur from the Lance Formation of Wyoming.” Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 79 (9): 1–6 Brown, Barnum; Schlaikjer, Erich M. (1943). “A study of the troödont dinosaurs with the description of a new genus and four new species”(PDF). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 82 (5): 115–150. Horner JR, Goodwin MB (2009) Extreme Cranial Ontogeny in the Upper Cretaceous Dinosaur Pachycephalosaurus PLoS ONE 4(10): e7626. Giffin, Emily B.; Gabriel, Diane L.; Johnson, Rolf E. (22 January 1988). “A New Pachycephalosaurid Hell Creek Formation of Montana”. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. Taylor & Francis, Ltd. 7 (4): 398–407. Galton, Peter M.; Sues, Hans-Dieter (1983). “New data on pachycephalosaurid dinosaurs (Reptilia: Ornithischia) from North America”. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 20 (3): 462–472. Nabavizadeh, Ali (2016). Evolutionary Trends in the Jaw Adductor Mechanics of Ornithischian Dinosaurs. The Anatomical Record, 299(3), 271–294. Wang, Shuo; Stiegler, Josef; Amiot, Romain; Wang, Xu; Du, Guo-hao; Clark, James M.; Xu, Xing (2017). Extreme Ontogenetic Changes in a Ceratosaurian Theropod. Current Biology, 27(1), 144–148. Gilmore, C. W. (1924). “On Troodon validus, an orthopodous dinosaur from the Belly River Cretaceous of Alberta, Canada”. Department of Geology, University of Alberta Bulletin. 1: 1–43. Woodward, Holly N., et al. “Growing up Tyrannosaurus Rex: Osteohistology Refutes the Pygmy ‘Nanotyrannus’ and Supports Ontogenetic Niche Partitioning in Juvenile Tyrannosaurus.” Science Advances, vol. 6, no. 1, 2020 Pickrell, John. “Vegetarian Dinosaur May Have Actually Eaten Meat, Skull Suggests.” Science, National Geographic, 3 May 2021,   Goodwin, Mark B., Evans, David C. Carroll, Nathan R., Woodruff, Cary, Wilson, John, Bozeman. Comparative Cranial Anatomy of New, Long Horned, Flat Headed Ontogimorphs of Pachycephalosaurus (Dinosauria, Ornithischia) from the Hell Creek Formation, Montana Reveals Novel Features in the Skull [abstract]. In: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Program and Abstracts, 2018, 135. __________________________________________________________________ Hashtags - #dinosaur #paleontology #nature __________________________________________________________________