The Dinosaur Thread

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Scientists find fossil of largest arthropod to ever live, a car-size millipede | Live Science

Impeccably preserved dinosaur embryo looks as if it 'died yesterday' | Live Science

 

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55-foot-long Triassic sea monster discovered in Nevada | Live Science

 

[Melpardus]

It's that time of year when the paleontology YouTube sphere collectively gets together for the annual PaleoRewind, which goes over the various discoveries made that year, so if you wanna see plenty of the cool science that was done in 2021, I suggest checking it out!


This year is the biggest one so far, with 20+ channels involved to split up the months into halves; I got to participate and took the first half of June, which included Australia's largest dinosaur, a bunch of new hadrosaurs, new science about the asteroid impact, and a discovery about a baby Stone Age human:

 

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240 million-year-old 'crocodile beast' was one of the largest of its kind | Live Science

 

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The 'weirdest wonder' of evolution had an even weirder cousin, new study finds | Live Science

 

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Largest Jurassic pterosaur on record unearthed in Scotland | Live Science

 

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Largest ichthyosaur tooth on Earth discovered in Swiss Alps | Live Science

 

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Giant ‘dragon of death’ with 30-foot wingspan unearthed in Argentina | Live Science

 

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Crocodile-faced dinosaur may have been Europe’s largest ever predator | Live Science

 

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Dinosaur 'reaper' with massive claws found in Japan | Live Science

 

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Massive bulldog-faced dinosaur was like a T. rex on steroids | Live Science

 

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8-armed Jurassic 'vampire' used supersuckers to trap prey, amazing 3D images reveal | Live Science

 

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Giant meat-eating dinosaur had a fancy skull and wee arms like T. rex | Live Science

 

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'Astonishing' 500 million-year-old fossils preserved the brain of this creepy 3-eyed predator | Live Science

 

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'Merciless' sea monster with broken teeth prowled the seas 66 million years ago | Live Science

 

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'Merciless' sea monster with broken teeth prowled the seas 66 million years ago | Live Science

Pure nightmare fuel

 

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Rare fossils reveal basketball-like skin on duck-billed dinosaur | Live Science

 

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Ginormous Jurassic fossil in Portugal may be the biggest dinosaur ever found in Europe | Live Science

 

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T. rex could have been 70% bigger than fossils suggest, new study shows | Live Science

 

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'Frightful' never-before-seen tyrannosaur might be the 'missing link' in T. rex evolution | Live Science

 

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Velociraptors probably didn't use their 'wicked' claws for slashing, surprising new study suggests | Live Science

 

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Velociraptors probably didn't use their 'wicked' claws for slashing, surprising new study suggests | Live Science

In new research, scientists observed the red-legged seriema (Cariama cristata), a South American predatory bird that stalks small mammals, reptiles, amphibians and insects and which has a sharp, curved claw that sits above the ground, much like Deinonychus, Velociraptor, Utahraptor and other "raptor"dinosaurs.

Now I want to see a dino do this move.

 

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Jurassic World’s bizarre, scythe-clawed dinosaur couldn't have been a slasher, study confirms | Live Science

 

[Iceman]

Jurassic World’s bizarre, scythe-clawed dinosaur couldn't have been a slasher, study confirms | Live Science

Wasn’t expecting that one to be realistic.

 

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Longest dinosaur neck ever stretched further than a school bus at 49 feet long | Live Science