Baby Dinosaurs Who Don't Share: Diet Competition in Juvenile Dinosaurs

Explore the fascinating world of juvenile dinosaur diets and competition in this 47-minute virtual speaker series talk. Delve into Taia Wyenberg-Henzler's research on how young herbivorous dinosaurs, particularly hadrosaurids and ceratopsids, adapted their feeding habits as they grew. Discover how skull changes indicate a shift from soft, low-growing vegetation to tougher, higher-growing plants during maturation. Examine the concept of resource partitioning among different dinosaur species and age groups in Late Cretaceous ecosystems. Learn about the surprising impact of yearling hadrosaurids on browsing pressure below 1 meter. Gain insights into the importance of considering life history in ecological studies and its implications for dinosaur community structures. Investigate browse profiles of the Dinosaur Park Formation in southern Alberta and understand how juvenile megaherbivores and leptoceratopsids evolved to facilitate resource partitioning.