| Show ball and socket joint in skull of a dinosaur washington what use was there tor for a ball and socket jointed bone at the back of a dinosaurs skull charles W gilmore curator of vertebrate paleontology at the united states national museum would like to know at the back of the skull of a a rooster crested monster that lived in montana about a hundred million years ago he has found a bone arrangement that has never been found in any other kind of skull A relatively small triangular bone bears on its front edge a socket or cup which fits neatly over a ball shaped projection on the bone in front of it what whatever ever was the use of this unique skull joint it could hardly have been to make room for the hadro had rosaura saurs massive brain for the hadro saurs brain was anything but massive it have weighed moie more than two or three ounces it was enough to see hear and probably smell with but that was about all but then verb very likely a dinosaur never bothered to think except pt possibly once in a while about another dinosaur |
