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Like today's crested roosters, who rise at a day's first light, one crested, duck-billed dinosaur is shedding new light on the earth's prehistoric evolution.
Long-held scientific assumptions said the duck-billed Edmontosaurus regalis had a plain head, no elaborate neck frill or horns or spikes, none of the fancy head ornaments sported by many others in the dino world.
Researchers have announced, with notable excitement, that the Edmontosaurus regalis in fact had on thye top of its head a fleshy adornment that bobbled, unique in that era.
The reality-shifting find is described in the Dec. 12 edition of the journal Current Biology's Cell Press.
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