@odin.xz: Poor tripod fish is literally just born to suffer :(( #tripodfish #fish #edit #fyp #xyzabc Some tripod fish facts! - Since tripod fish is a simultaneous hermaphrodie, it can technically make baby tripod fish with itself - Its full government name is ‘Bathypterois grallator’ and ‘bathypterois’ means ‘deep feathery’ Thought it only fitting that I should have a go at some tripod fish facts before we get into our dinosaur of the day, which is… 🥁🥁🥁🥁 Parasaurolophus!! William Parks was the first man to write about Parasaurolophus, and he thought that they looked like Saurolophus, and so named them ‘Parasaurolophus’, meaning ‘like saurolophus’ 😭😭 Saurolophus was another duck-billed dinosaur and that name means ‘lizard crest’. Para was around 33-40ft (10-12m) long and 8ft (2.8m) tall at the hips. Para had a large, hollow crest - inside the crest was an empty tube that started around its nostrils and looped around inside the crest before directing back at the scull. Its been debated what this was used for. It could have been a way to identify others of its species, used to create a resonating sound to communicate, or used to regulate its temperature. Of course, it is also possible that it was used for all three!! There’s not always one answer!! These were advanced and sophisticated animals that evolved and adapted to their environment in miraculous ways!! Parasaurolophus sculls have been found of all different shapes and sizes and paleontologists have debated the reason for this. Is it a sign of age? Sex? We’re not sure and havent been able to get a hold of any Parasaurolophus to ask them. However!! In the 1990’s, scientists blew air through the crest and it created a trumpeting sound (just search parasaurolophus sound here on tiktok if you somehow havent heard it) We have found preserved Parasaurolophus skin impressions and have concluded that it had scaley skin. Para was herbivorous, using its many teeth to grind plants up like many hadrosaurs such as Edmontosaurus, Maiasaura, Lambeosaurus etc. Para had four legs, and could have very easily made both quadrupedal and bipedal movements. Para didnt have any special defence mechanism that it adapted over time in the way we see with other herbivores such as Ankylosaurus, Therizinosaurus, Stegosaurus etc. Though, they were rather large, which would have potentially made them a harder target for predators, and we have presumed that they moved in herds, relying on saftey in numbers. Parasaurolophus lived in the Late Cretaceous period, and they’ve been found in Alberta in Canada, and both Utah and New Mexico in the US. Alright, thats it I think! I hope you have a good morning/day/afternoon/evenining/night depending on where you are when you’re seeing this! 🖤💐

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