Thank you Caldey for sending into @EverythingDinosaur your illustration of a pair of ornithopod dinosaurs (Muttaburrasaurus) gently nuzzling.

Think this behaviour is called allopreening.

If it's seen in birds why not dinosaurs.😀
#Dinosaurs #DinosaurDrawing #EverythingDinosaur #Muttaburrasaurus #palaeoart

Toothy snout recasts #Australia's famed Muttaburrasaurus as a picky eater https://phys.org/news/2026-04-toothy-snout-recasts-australia-famed.html

"#Muttaburrasaurus had teeth at the tip of its snout. This was unexpected, because its beak was thought to be toothless like other plant-eating #dinosaurs such as Iguanodon or Hadrosaurs... its inner ear was more like dinosaurs that walked on two legs... it's possible that Muttaburrasaurus was a large herbivore walking and running on its hind legs when needed and used its front arms for support"

This weeks #Lego #FossilFriday is #Muttaburrasaurus.

In 1963, Doug Langdon found a partial skeleton near the Thomson River not too far from the town of Muttaburra. It was collected by Dr Alan Bartholomai and entomologist Edward Dahms.

I was prepared slowly and carefully over the following years. In 1981, Bartholomai and Ralph Molnar named it Muttaburrasaurus Langdoni, after the town, and person who found it.

In 2022 Muttaburrasaurus was named the State Fossil Emblem of Queensland.

This weeks #Lego #Dinosaur of the week will be #Muttaburrasaurus

Each build come with a fact sheet, and parts list.
#Dinosauroftheweek
#Reptileoftheweek
#Qucikbuild
#LegoMOC

Want to build this little guy? Well here's the instructions - https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1F13VWLrS5-F22zWJ7AGck536CdKYBV2Z?usp=sharing