Dinosaur in Mexico: New “Talking” Species Used Low Frequency Sounds

The National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), Mexico, a part of the Ministry of Culture, along with the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), launched a project in 2013, to “recover a semi-articulated tail of a putative hadrosaur.” This fossil of a dinosaur in Mexico was discovered in 2005 and is now dated to 72-73 million years ago. The new species of dinosaur in Mexico is outlined and detailed in a recent study published in the scientific journal Cretaceous Research.

The discovery of the dinosaur in Mexico was made in the upper-Campanian deposits of the Cerro del Pueblo Formation, near Presa de San Antonio, General Cepeda Municipality, Coahuila, northern Mexico. It has been identified as a new and unidentified species of dinosaur. What is unique about this new species is that it used low frequency sounds like elephants to communicate, reports British sci-tech publication, Phys.org.

Paleontologists from INAH and UNAM unearthed the tail of the new dinosaur in Mexico in 2013. (INAH)