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I’m really excited about what I learned today. Today I learned what dinosaurs looked like - at least brachylophosaurus anyway. This is pretty damn cool. In case you don’t know, the physical appearance of dinosaurs has been largely conjecture since humankind began excavating dinosaur fossils. That reptilian skin we associate with dinosaurs was mostly just an educated guess based on the shape of their skeletons.

Well, it turns out that the scientists were probably right. The brachylophosaurus was a hadrosaur, or duck-billed dinosaur; in my opinion some of the more interesting of the dinosaurs. Leonardo (they named the brachylophosaurus Leonardo) was covered with pentagonal scales ranging from the size of a BB to the size of a dime. We don’t know what color it was though, since fossils have no organic tissue left in them.

Go look!! Here and here…

Hey, I learned something else today… how to spell “brachylophosaurus”.

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