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Day 18 - Possible niche

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"Draw a dinosaur in a possible niche it could belong to"

Not so long ago large paraglossia were discovered in a Pinacosaurus fossil. Paraglossia are the tongue bones made of cartillage and in Pinacosaurus they were huge, which means the animal had a powerful tongue. This means it could pull stuff towards its mouth, but what's also possible is that it could use its tongue like those of an anteater. Insectivory had been suggested for ankylosaurids long ago already, but there was no proof for it. Plus, such multiton animals surviving on ants and termites alone isn't possible, so they couldn't be full insectivores even if they did go after them from time to time.
That's for adults. Juveniles however, or hatchlings, weren't the heavy walking coffee tables their parents were so for them it maybe was possible to be an insectivore at the early stages of their life. Here we have a juvenile Pinacosaurus grangeri of 1.5 meters (5 ft) digging into a termite mound. 

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Animedino321's avatar

I prefer the Anky hippos :3