TORONTO:Dismissing a common perception that dinosaurs were solitary, vicious monsters, researchers have found evidence that just like most modern animals, these gigantic creatures too loved company and they lived and died together in groups.
"The common mythology of dinosaurs depicts solitary, vicious monsters running around eating everything," said one of the researchers Gregory Funston from University of Alberta in Canada. "Our discovery demonstrates that dinosaurs are more similar to modern animals than people appreciate," Funston noted.
"This evidence shows that dinosaurs were social beings with gregarious behaviour who lived and died together in groups," he added. The discovery comes from a site in Mongolia, first encountered by paleontologists a decade ago. The site contained thousands of shards of destroyed bone, belying the telltale evidence of a previous discovery by fossil poachers.
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