Burpee dino finds get scientific thumbs up

March 25th, 2009 at 09:06am Georgette Braun

Triceratops, thought to be loners, may have hung out together, if only for protection.

That’s what researchers from the Burpee Museum of Natural History in Rockford and others including Northern Illinois University in DeKalb say in a scientific article recently published in the “Journal of Vertabrate Paleontology.” They based their findings on fossils Burpee staff and others found in Montana rocks.

And another paper published in the same journal sheds light on a bone-headed dinosaur that Burpee staff and others uncovered. This article says that when Pachycephalosaurs were hatched out of their eggs, they already had impressive ornamental headgear.

The publications show that Burpee has become a “respected institution, not only in the educational commuity and general public, but also within the scientific community,” according to a Burpee press release.

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