Weird Ancient Wildebeest Sported Duck-Billed Dinosaur Nose

Duck-billed dinosaurs and an ancient wildebeest-like animal lived tens of millions of years apart, but they have strikingly similar, peculiar noses, a new study finds. "The nasal dome is a completely new structure for mammals — it doesn't look like anything you could see in an animal that's alive today," Haley O'Brien, a doctoral student of paleophysiology at Ohio University in Athens, said in a statement. The idea for the study surfaced in 2009, when study co-author J. Tyler Faith, a lect