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New study confirms the power of Deinosuchus and its 'teeth the size of bananas' Aug 10, 2020 A new study, revisiting fossil specimens from the enormous crocodylian, Deinosuchus, has confirmed that the beast had teeth "the size of bananas," capable of taking down even the very largest of dinosaurs. https://phys.org/news/2020-08-power-...e-bananas.html |
August 28th, 2020 | #62 |
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First 3D look at an embryonic sauropod dinosaur reveals unexpected facial features Aug 27, 2020 About 25 years ago, researchers discovered the first dinosaur embryos in an enormous nesting ground of titanosaurian dinosaurs that lived about 80 million years ago in a place known as Auca Mahuevo in Patagonia, Argentina. Now, researchers reporting in the journal Current Biology on August 27 describe the first near-intact embryonic skull. The finding adds to our understanding of the development of sauropod dinosaurs, a group characterized by the long neck and tails and small heads perhaps most familiar in the Brontosaurus, and suggests that they may have had specialized facial features as hatchlings that changed as they grew into adults. https://phys.org/news/2020-08-3d-emb...r-reveals.html |
October 4th, 2020 | #63 |
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Interactive Map Reveals Which Dinosaurs Roamed Your Hometown Millions of Years Ago Oct 3, 2020 A new interactive map shows where on Earth the many different species of dinosaurs once roamed. Hosted by The Dinosaur Database, the Ancient Earth globe has two ways to learn more about the dinosaurs that lived in a particular location. Users can either start by investigating their hometown's fossils or by searching the map for a specific species of interest. https://mymodernmet.com/ancient-earth-dinosaur-map/ |
December 7th, 2020 | #64 |
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Oldest mammal hair ever discovered dating back 110MILLION years Scientists also found a dinosaur feather at the same site in Teruel, Aragon, eastern Spain , and say the remains date from between 105 and 110 million years ago. ShareWhile Spain is a known hot spot for Cretaceous fossils, the researchers were not expecting to find animal remains preserved in amber.Co-author doctoral student Sergio Álvarez-Parra from the University of Barcelona said: 'The determination of both findings is very complex, but it is likely for the feather remains to correspond to the extinct birds Enantiornithes, like other feathers in amber. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ION-years.html https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world...rs/ar-BB1bFJfY |
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Even ginormous dinosaurs had this unexpected lethal enemy Dec 7, 2020 Titanosaurs were so enormous that most predators knew better than to risk being trampled—but there was one thing that could take them down, and it didn’t even have teeth. What may have threatened a titanosaur most was a parasite it couldn’t even see coming. While parasitic life-forms have previously been found in dinosaur coprolites and on dinosaur feathers frozen in amber, this is the first time fossilized parasites have shown up in dinosaur bones. https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/even-g...-had-parasites |
August 24th, 2021 | #66 |
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Tyrannosaurus rex’s Jaw Tip May Have Played Essential Role as Sensitive Tactile Sensor Aug 23, 2021 Paleontologists have analyzed the morphology of the neurovascular canal in the well-preserved jaw of Tyrannosaurus rex using computed tomography techniques. Their results show that the dinosaur’s neurovascular canal had a rather complex branching amongst the dinosaurs and that its complexity was comparable to that of living crocodiles and tactile-foraging birds. http://www.sci-news.com/paleontology...sor-09986.html |
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Two new species of large predatory dinosaur discovered on Isle of Wight Sep 29, 2021 A new study led by palaeontologists at the University of Southampton suggests that bones found on the Isle of Wight belong to two new species of spinosaurid, a group of predatory theropod dinosaurs closely related to the giant Spinosaurus. Their unusual, crocodile-like skulls helped the group expand their diets, allowing them hunt prey on both land and in the water. https://phys.org/news/2021-09-specie...saur-isle.html |
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'Raptor-like' dinosaur discovered in Australian mine, actually uncovered as a timid vegetarian Oct 21, 2021 Footprints long considered to be evidence of the largest Triassic-era carnivorous dinosaur have, on closer examination, turned out to be something a little less... meaty. Nevertheless, the truth still has significance, revealing the presence of large sauropod dinosaurs in Australia long before any bone evidence found. Queensland hosts several mines and caves with dinosaur footprints on the ceiling. No, dinosaurs "down under" didn't walk upside down. The dinosaurs made indentations on marshy ground that later filled with silt and sand. Both the swamp and filling turned to stone under the pressure of subsequent layers, but the filled-in prints proved harder than the surrounding material and survived when the rest eroded away. https://phys.org/news/2021-10-raptor...red-timid.html |
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Researchers discover first dinosaur species that lived on Greenland 214 million years ago Nov 8, 2021 The two-legged dinosaur Issi saaneq lived about 214 million years ago in what is now Greenland. It was a medium-sized, long-necked herbivore and a predecessor of the sauropods, the largest land animals ever to live. It was discovered by an international team of researchers from Portugal, Denmark and Germany, including the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU). The name of the new dinosaur pays tribute to Greenland's Inuit language and means "cold bone." The team reports on its discovery in the journal Diversity. https://phys.org/news/2021-11-dinosa...ion-years.html |
November 11th, 2021 | #70 |
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NEW 'LARGE NOSED' SPECIES OF DINOSAUR DISCOVERED AMONG ISLE OF WIGHT BONES Nov 11, 2021 A new dinosaur - with an unusually large nose - has been identified in bones discovered on the Isle of Wight, by University of Portsmouth and Natural History Museum scientists. The new species, named Brighstoneus simmondsi, was discovered by a retired GP who was determined to prove that the two most common dinosaurs on the Isle of Wight - known as the ‘cattle of the Cretaceous’ – were not alone. He embarked on the painstaking task of going through every single Iguanodon bone ever discovered on the Isle of Wight in the collections at the Natural History Museum in London and Dinosaur Isle Museum, and was delighted to discover a remarkable nasal bone like no other. https://www.iwradio.co.uk/news/isle-...f-wight-bones/ https://edition.cnn.com/2021/11/10/w...scn/index.html |
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New Species of Armored Dinosaur Discovered Nov 29, 2021 Paleontologists have discovered what they say is a new species of the ankylosaurid dinosaur genus Tarchia that lived during the Upper Cretaceous epoch in what is now Mongolia. http://www.sci-news.com/paleontology...vae-10315.html |
December 2nd, 2021 | #72 |
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Incredible Dinosaur Treasure Trove in Italy Rewrites History, Geography, and Evolution Dec 2, 2021 A dinosaur trove in Italy rewrites the history, geography, and evolution of the ancient Mediterranean area. Italy is not exactly renowned for dinosaurs. In comparison to its excellent artistic and archaeological heritage, dinosaur fossils are very rare. Not surprisingly, the discovery of the first isolated remains from these animals, in the early 1990s, generated quite an excitement, but were shortly after considered nothing more than an exception to a general rule. During the reign of dinosaurs, between 230 and 66 million years ago, the ancient Mediterranean area would have been hard to map, formed by countless small islands far from all major mainlands – Europe, Africa, and Asia – unsuitable to sustain large animals like the dinosaurs. Or so we believed. https://scitechdaily.com/incredible-...and-evolution/ |
December 8th, 2021 | #73 |
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10 of the most amazing dinosaurs discovered in 2021
This year, fossil sites from around the world yielded spectacular new insights into the age of dinosaurs. December 8, 2021 On average, paleontologists have found more than 45 new dinosaur species every year since 2003. The pace of discovery is staggering, and during this golden age of paleontology, scientists are transforming our understanding of the prehistoric world. So far this year, 42 new dinosaur species have been discovered, according to the University of Maryland’s Tom Holtz, who maintains a database of new dinosaur finds. What has sustained this pace? For one, Holtz says, “it’s more people doing the work: more eyes on the ground, more teams, more parts of the world being investigated.” Dinosaur paleontology is a more diverse and more global discipline than ever before—with huge benefits to science. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/s...overed-in-2021 |
December 23rd, 2021 | #74 |
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A fossilised dinosaur embryo discovered in southern China may be the most well-preserved ever uncovered. The dinosaur egg containing the embryo had languished for more than a decade in a storeroom in Yingliang Stone Natural History Museum in Nan’an, China, until 2015, when a staff member noticed bones sticking out of the shell and wondered if it may contain an unhatched dinosaur. Hundreds of well-preserved dinosaur footprints, some of which even contain traces of scaly skin, have been found in a opencast clay mine in Poland's Borkowice. The important find could shed some light on the early history of dinosaurs' evolution and the ecosystems that prevailed millions of years ago. |
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New Bird-Like Dinosaur Species Unearthed on Isle of Wight Dec 21, 2021 A new genus and species of dromaeosaurid dinosaur has been discovered by a team of paleontologists from the University of Bath and the University of Portsmouth. The newly-identified dinosaur species roamed our planet during the Early Cretaceous epoch, between 130 and 125 million years ago. Named Vectiraptor greeni, the ancient creature measured about 2.5-3 m (8.2-9.8 feet) long. It was a member of Dromaeosauridae, a very large family of feathered predatory dinosaurs. http://www.sci-news.com/paleontology...eni-10385.html |
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The Top Ten Dinosaur Discoveries of 2021 The key finds and moments in a year packed with amazing stories about the terrible lizards Dec 27, 2021 There’s never been a better time to be a dinosaur fan. New species are being described at a fast-and-furious pace, with 42 species named just this year, and paleontologists have also been investigating and arguing about everything from patterns of dinosaur evolution to the ethics of fossil collecting. This year’s finds help set up the studies and debates that we’ll be sure to see in the years ahead, and these are some of the most important dinosaur-focused stories that have been unearthed in 2021. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/scien...021-180979215/ |
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Pterosaurs May Have Had Brightly Colored Feathers, Exquisite Fossil Reveals An amazingly well-preserved fossil suggests the common ancestor of dinosaurs and pterosaurs also had some type of feather or feather precursor April 20, 2022 Long before the first birds flapped and fluttered, pterosaurs took to the skies. These leathery-winged reptiles, their bodies coated with wispy filaments paleontologists call pycnofibers, were the first vertebrates to truly fly. Now experts are beginning to think pterosaurs and birds had more in common than previously assumed: An exquisitely preserved fossil from Brazil not only hints that pterosaurs’ peculiar filaments may have been true feathers but also suggests that this plumage could possibly have been as riotously colored as that of any modern toucan or tanager. https://www.scientificamerican.com/a...ossil-reveals/ |
November 13th, 2022 | #78 |
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The First Ever Dinosaur Discovery: The Megalosaurus The dinosaur Megalosaurus marked our introduction to the “terrible lizards” that continue to fascinate us, even centuries later. Nov 11, 2022 Today, scientists know a lot about the age of dinosaurs. We know that dinosaurs ruled the Earth for 165 million years, before going extinct some 66 million years ago. We’ve discovered over 1,000 species of dinosaurs to date — large and small, warm- and cold-blooded. We know that birds are a type of dinosaur, and that many dino species may have been covered in feathers. But all this knowledge is relatively new. In fact, we didn’t know dinosaurs even existed until the 19th century. Just like we once thought our planet was flat, or that the sun revolved around the Earth, humans didn’t always understand that an entire species of mega beasts came before us. That is, until Oxford theologian and geologist William Buckland named the world’s first dinosaur in his 1824 article, “Notice on the Megalosaurus or great Fossil Lizard of Stonesfield.” In it, he described the “partial jaw and jutting tooth” of a creature he dubbed the Megalosaurus, or "big lizard.” “Megalosaurus is unique because of its historical value,” says Mateusz Tałanda, an assistant professor of paleobiology at the University of Warsaw. “It changed how we understood the world around us.” The First Ever Dinosaur Discovery: The Megalosaurus | Discover Magazine |
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