These Dinosaurs' Noses Made Breathing Complicated for a Very Good Reason
By modeling the breaths of ankylosaurs, scientists have shown why these creatures had some of the most convoluted nasal passages ever seen.
About 75 million years ago, in what is now Alberta, Canada, a dinosaur called Euoplocephalus took its final breath. That exhalation, like every other, was fleeting and insubstantial, but eons later, scientists can still reconstruct the path it took out of the dinosaur’s head. And that path, it turns out, was extraordinarily convoluted.
was one of the ankylosaurs—a group of tank-like species covered in bony plates. Their skulls and backs were armored. Their were occasionally armored. Even the nasal passages inside their skulls were lined with bone,preserving these delicate structures, usually lost to time.
