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Social Behaviour in Dinosaurs - With David Hone

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This course examines what the fossil record can reveal about dinosaur social behaviour and how they lived and died together. It uses discoveries from Mongolia’s Gobi Desert to discuss aggregations, predation, and group formation.

Syllabus

Intro
Gobi Desert Fieldwork
Inferring behaviour in the fossil record
Social Behaviour
Dinosaurs: the basics
Diversity!
Adult aggregations
New specimens
Aggregations in Protoceratops
Dinosaur Aggregations
Evidence for juvenile predation
Groups Forming

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The Royal Institution

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