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Yale University

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By examining the type of rock in which dinosaur fossils were embedded, paleontologists discovered that hadrosaurs or duck-billed dinosaurs preferred to live along the edge of rivers, while ceratopsians, which include the well-known Triceratops, preferred to be several miles inland.

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Nicholas Longrich/Yale University

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