User:Abyssal/Prehistory of North America/DYK/49
- ... that the dinosaur Wendiceratops (pictured) was named for fossil hunter Wendy Sloboda, who then had it tattooed on her arm in celebration?
- ... that the king of gore and the monstrous murderer lived in Utah 80 and 75 million years ago respectively?
- ...that Dracorex hogwartsia was a dinosaur named for its resemblance to the Hungarian Horntail, a dragon in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series?
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- ... that the North Acropolis (pictured) at the ancient Maya city of Tikal served as a royal necropolis and contains the tombs of a number of identified Maya rulers?
- ... that the Triassic archosaur Poposaurus walked on two legs like some dinosaurs, but was more closely related to crocodiles?
- ...that the discovery of the dinosauromorph Dromomeron, from the Late Triassic of New Mexico, indicates that dinosaurs did not rapidly replace their close relatives?
- ... that Macroelongatoolithus is a kind of giant fossil egg that can be over 60 centimetres (24 in) long, and probably was laid by a gigantic oviraptorid?
- ...that the dinosaur fossil Dakota is so well-preserved it has caused researchers to revise their estimates of the appearance, size, and speed of a whole group of dinosaurs known as hadrosaurs?