Paleontologists have identified a new species of dinosaur called Tlatolophus galorum in northern Mexico which dates back 73 million years.
- The new species is believed to have been “very communicative” and used low-frequency sounds like elephants to talk to each other.
- The new species was a crested dinosaur. The crest’s shape is similar to a “symbol used by Mesoamerican people in ancient manuscripts to represent the action of communication and knowledge itself.”
- Its tail was discovered first, in the General Cepeda area of the northern state of Coahuila in 2013.
- Scientists said that the dinosaur had ears that could hear low-frequency sounds. “They must have been peaceful but talkative dinosaurs.”
- The specimen is thought to have died around 72 million years ago in what is now Mexico’s northern state of Coahuila.
- Research about the new dinosaur species was published in Cretaceous Research, a scientific journal.
