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Tango01 Supporting Member of TMP07 May 2020 10:12 p.m. PST

"What did Triceratops smell like?

Bones have given us an osteological outline of what the famous "three-horned face" looked like. Skin impressions and colors of related animals have offered some possibilities about saurian fashion, too. But, if we were able to travel back 67 million years, what scent would waft away from the hefty herbivore? Would it smell like a barnyard? Like nothing at all? Would the dinosaur carry a whiff of… frill cheese?

We know more than ever about dinosaurs. New species, new insights, new hypotheses. It's almost impossible to keep up with everything. But one aspect of dinosaur lives we know precious little about is how they would have smelled – to us or, more importantly, to each other…"

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Extrabio1947 Supporting Member of TMP08 May 2020 4:38 a.m. PST

Of all the things I have never thought about….

Dave Jackson Supporting Member of TMP08 May 2020 7:03 a.m. PST

seemed really a completely uninformative article…..long on babble.

Tgunner08 May 2020 9:15 a.m. PST

That's the great thing about us academics. We can drone on with page after page of text and literally say nothing useful at all. It's almost an art!

The Tin Dictator08 May 2020 10:43 a.m. PST

smells and tastes like chicken !

JMcCarroll08 May 2020 10:45 a.m. PST

They ate a lot of high fiber foods. So best to be upwind.

Slow Oats08 May 2020 11:03 a.m. PST

"My dinosaur has no nose."

"How does it smell?"

"Awful!"

Tango01 Supporting Member of TMP08 May 2020 12:37 p.m. PST

Ha!Ha!….

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JMcCarroll08 May 2020 4:01 p.m. PST

"My dinosaur has no nose."

"How does it smell?"

"Awful!"

Good one! Except I think it has been outlawed as a JOKE.

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