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Spiky deaf dinosaur was lonely ‘living fortress’ with no friends, researchers find
dailystar.co.ukdinosaur described as a “living fortress” was likely deaf and had no friends, researchers have found. The struthiosaurus, a member of the nodosaurid species was a heavily armoured dinosaur that had long spikes on its necks and shoulders – great at defending itself from enemies.
Researchers studied the braincase of the 80-million-year-old herbivore, in order to better understand its lifestyle and published their findings in the journal Scientific Reports.
This dinosaur had a very small flocculus, a part of the brain key to eye fixation when the head, neck or body is in motion.The finding, combined with the semicircular shape of its inner ear canals, suggests this dinosaur moved very slowly.Study author, Marco Schade, a palaeontologist at the University of Greifswald in Germany, said that the animal would have been very passive and sluggish, not acting as the aggressor, and could "take care of itself in order to survive”.The dinosaur wasn't blind and would have been able to see predators coming.He added: "While some of its relatives probably defended themselves with their tail clubs, struthiosaurus probably relied more on its distinctive armouring.”The braincase also revealed the shortest ever cochlea found in a dinosaur – the part of the inner ear where hearing takes place – with its size potentially determining hearing ability.To stay up to date with all the latest news, make sure you sign up for one of our newsletters here.The study explained: "These observations agree with an animal that adapted to a comparatively inactive lifestyle with limited social interactions."Scientists believe that many dinosaurs lived and travelled in groups, but this species likely lived as a loner due to its poor hearing.Study co-author.
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