TYLER KEILLOR
Reconstruction of the head and neck of Heterodontosaurus tucki from the Lower Jurassic Upper Elliot and Clarens formations in South Africa. Reconstruction by Tyler Keillor.
A team of scientists at the European Synchrotron has demonstrated how the respiratory system of a 200-million-year-old South African dinosaur looked like Heterodontosaurus tucki using high-powered X-rays. This finding also confirms that not all dinosaurs breathed the same way.
Study to uncover the respiratory system Heterodontosaurus tucki It started when scientists from the Evolutionary Studies Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, came to the European Synchronous Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble, France in 2016.
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