Dinosaurs like Parasaurolophus may have been good swimmers Daniel Eskridge/Alamy
For the first time, the fossil remains of a duck-billed dinosaur have been found in Africa. The discovery suggests that dinosaurs sometimes swam across wide oceans, and were more capable in water than we thought.
“As best we can tell, dinosaurs swam across ocean barriers,” says Nicholas Longrich at the University of Bath in the UK.
Duck-billed dinosaurs, or hadrosaurs, were common towards the end of the dinosaur era. They were large animals that mostly ate plants. The bones in their snouts were flattened, giving them a duck-like appearance.…
