Please Welcome -- Oryctodromeus cubicularis -- the Burrowing Dinosaur

A new discovery of a family of burrowing dinosaurs was found in Montana here is the report:

Dinosaurs could go underground 95 million years ago: Study

Washington, Mar.21: A Montana State University researcher and his colleagues have discovered the fossilized remains of a dinosaur family in a burrow, suggesting that the large reptiles possessed the ability to go underground in the event of danger.

According to David Varricchio and his colleagues, the discovery in Southern Montana provides the first evidence that dinosaurs could burrow, and the best evidence yet for long-term parental care in dinosaurs.

The team has named the beast Oryctodromeus cubicularis, meaning 'digging runner of the lair'. It belongs to a group of small herbivorous dinosaurs, and lived 95 million years ago during the mid-Cretaceous period.

[edit on 2007/3/21 by JacKatMtn]

interesting stuff. this opens up the possibility that some of them have survived.

Originally posted by ellroy
interesting stuff. this opens up the possibility that some of them have survived.

That may be a stretch, their size seems fairly small for dinosaurs I guess burrowing tunnels also aided in their survival sort of like field mice, rabbits etc. a place to run when the big predators came calling.

i know its a bit far feched, but this discovery shows how little we know of what or who was here before us.

completely expectable imho.

They dominated the earth like mammals do now. Im sure they would have filled every niche like today's mammals have.