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The Sam Noble Museum boasts the only known fossil of the Aquilops, the tiny dinosaur star of the new blockbuster, debuting on digital Aug. 5.
Dolores the Aquilops from Jurassic World Rebirth is now appearing in Universal Islands of Adventure at Universal Orlando ...
The dinosaur is also an unlikely star in the latest Jurassic World movie. A team from the Sam Noble Museum at the University ...
Jurassic fans will soon be able to watch the latest installment in the long-running dinosaur franchise in the comfort of ...
The Sam Noble Museum on Saturday will celebrate a creature rising to stardom in the latest Jurassic World movie: the Aquilops, discovered by Oklahoma researchers nearly 30 years ago. The Aquilops ...
Aquilops’ skull, which measures just 3.3 inches (8.4cm) long, has a distinctive hooked beak-like structure and a pointed cavity on its cheeks (illustrated) ...
Aquilops americanus, or eagle face, is a distant relative of the triceratops, living about 40 million years before the iconic species. It is also 20 million years older than the previous oldest ...
Aquilops was a plant eater, about the size of a sulfur crested cockatoo, and had several unique features including a strongly hooked beak for nipping off vegetation.
Aquilops was a vegetarian that most likely snipped off bits of ferns, saplings and other plants with that sharp beak, Farke says. It probably walked on two legs and had a long tail.
Instead, Aquilops, which means "eagle face" in Latin, is most closely related to animals from Asia, including the dinosaurs Archaeoceratops oshimai and Leptoceratops gracilis.
The skull of Aquilops is about 3.5 inches long and would easily fit in the palm of your hand. When the fossil was discovered in southern Montana in the late 1990s, however, it looked like just a ...
Farke said Aquilops was a plant-eater which measured about 2-feet-long, weighed about 3.5 pounds. "It was about size of a raven," Farke told CBS News.