The discovery of the `big-nosed king` dinosaur

Written By ديانا الحموري on 2014/09/27

This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.

<p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr">ArabiaWeather.com - There has recently been talk about the dinosaur &quot;the big-nosed king&quot; referring to information about this type of extinct dinosaur, following the discovery of a new fossil called &quot;Renorix chondrobus&quot;.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="line-height:1.6em">While scientists were rearranging the fossils, they stumbled upon the remains of the &quot;rinorex&quot; in a depository at the Brigham University Museum in Utah, where they were found in a rock formation in the 1990s.</span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="line-height:1.6em">After further study, it was proven that it belonged to a dinosaur that lived about 75 million years ago in the center of the state.</span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="line-height:1.6em">&quot;We discovered almost the entire skull, but the preparation and the work was very difficult,&quot; said researcher Terry Gates of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, who led the study. &quot;It took two years to extract the fossil from the sandstone, as it was completely attached to it as part of it.&quot; .</span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="line-height:1.6em">Scientists believe that the &quot;Renorix&quot; dinosaur was of the hadrosaurus species, and is distinguished by the huge nasal bone, which makes it the &quot;king with the big nose.&quot;</span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="line-height:1.6em">&quot;We don&#39;t know exactly what the big nose is for, but we think it may have been used to track the smell of meat and identify members of the group,&quot; Gates told Live Science.</span></p>

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