HardEdmontosaurus
Edmontosaurus regalis
ed-MON-toh-SORE-us· “lizard from Edmonton”
🕰️ Cretaceous🌿 herbivore🦴 Hadrosauridae
12 m
Length
3.5 m
Height
4 t
Weight
A huge duck-billed dinosaur with hundreds of grinding teeth packed into its jaws. It lived in vast herds right up to the very end of the age of dinosaurs, alongside T. rex.
When
Late Cretaceous, ~73–66 million years ago
Found in
Canada
Discovered
Lawrence Lambe, 1917
Did you know?
- Its jaws held a 'dental battery' of up to a thousand teeth for grinding tough plants.
- Mummified specimens have preserved its skin texture and even a fleshy head crest.
- It lived side by side with Tyrannosaurus rex and was likely its prey.
Artwork: TotalDino, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.