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Violent game

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Recently we discuss during the Münster Lunch Lectures the question "why are we playing?".
And this, and a few other thoughts and talks bring me to our next "All Yesterdays" piece.
Some herbivores also like to play and like predators, they not always play peacefully. In this case a subadult, enthusiastic Edmontosaurus regalis bull have trampled a baby gorgosaurus and now throw the body for fun.

But it not ends here, beside the play-behavior I overwork my recent idea of Edmontosaurus. The first thing which changed was, obviously, the integument. Maybe Edmontosaurus annectens had less, or no dinofur but E. regalis is only known from northern graveyards (as far as I know) and the skull is more compact which could be a sign for a coolingresistant animal.
The second big change was the nose, beside making the animal much more robust than in older reconstructions I thought again about the soft tissues of the skull. In comparison with E. annectens I notice that the nose openings are more prominent... maybe to hold a huge organ like this, with an similar function to Saiga antilopes.
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:( gorgo...

Deine Mama wird dich rächen!!!