The Unique Parasaurolophus Dinosaur

Imagine a dinosaur with a GIANT tube on its head… that it may have used to make sounds louder

than a trumpet!” Meet Parasaurolophus, one of the strangest and most fascinating dinosaurs of the

Late Cretaceous. Parasaurolophus lived around 76 million years ago in what is now Alberta,

Utah, and New Mexico. It was a huge plant-eater, growing over 9 metres long,

weighing more than 5 tons, and able to walk on both two legs and four.

But its most famous feature was the enormous curved crest on its head — a long,

hollow tube that stretched up and back like a giant horn. Scientists think

this crest helped the dinosaur communicate, letting it make deep, echoing calls that