The Dinosaur Thread

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Dinosaur-age 'nightmarish' sea lizard fossil found - BBC News

Scientists believe the species hunted the oceans 66 million years ago with "teeth like knives".

www.bbc.com

 

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Newly discovered fossil of giant turtle is named after Stephen King novel character

An international research team led by Dr. Gabriel S. Ferreira from the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Paleoenvironment at the University of Tübingen has described a new species of giant turtle from the late Pleistocene.

phys.org

 

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Triassic 'tank' unearthed in Texas was a croc cousin that lived 215 million years ago

Fossil discovered in 1989 found to be new species of aetosaur — a massive armored crocodile cousin that lived during the late Triassic.

www.livescience.com

 

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Jurassic fossil discovery leads to new mammal theory

"The fossils show incremental modifications that demonstrate the complex process of adaptation," researcher Patricia Vickers-Rich said.

www.newsweek.com

 

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Anyone For A Mini Titanosaur? New Species Is One Of The Smallest Ever Found

Titanomachya gimenezi has been compared to a cow.

www.iflscience.com

 

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Giant, 82-foot lizard fish discovered on UK beach could be largest marine reptile ever found

Newly discovered ichthyosaur that lived 200 million years ago in the Triassic sea is potentially the biggest to ever live, scientists say.

www.livescience.com

 

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Enormous dinosaur dubbed Shiva 'The Destroyer' is one of the biggest ever discovered

Researchers discovered the remains of a huge dinosaur named Bustingorrytitan shiva last year and have now released artistic reconstructions of the Cretaceous giant.

www.livescience.com

 

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Ancient, 30-foot relative of great white shark unearthed in Mexico quarry

"Exceptionally preserved" fossils of an ancient shark that lived alongside the dinosaurs has finally revealed what the predator looked like — and why it may have gone extinct.

www.livescience.com

 

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T. rex was as smart as a crocodile, not an ape, according to study debunking controversial intelligence findings

A new study debunks previous findings that the dinosaur's intelligence was similar to that of primates, finding instead that they're about as smart as modern-day crocodiles.

www.livescience.com

 

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“Hidden Gem” Fossil Of Dinosaur Skin Preserved Like Glass Reveals It Had Scales And Feathers

"This type of preservation has never been found in vertebrate fossils."

www.iflscience.com

 

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Can you spot this apex predator's tiny arms?

Newly discovered dinosaur — the apex predator of its environment — had a weirdly flat skull compared to its contemporaries, along with ridiculously small arms.

www.livescience.com

 

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Newfound dinosaur with giant, horned headpiece named after iconic Norse god

A newly identified dinosaur with large, ornate horns on its massive head shield has been named after a famous Norse god who sported a similar headpiece in recent Marvel movies.

www.livescience.com

 

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T. rex relative with giant, protruding eyebrows discovered in Kyrgyzstan

The newly discovered Alpkarakush kyrgyzicus fossils are the first of their kind from Kyrgyzstan and provide evidence of predatory dinosaurs caring for offspring in the Jurassic.

www.livescience.com

 

[Lily Adler]

 

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‘Entire ecosystem’ of fossils 8.7m years old found under Los Angeles high school

Researchers find two sites with fossils including saber-toothed salmon and megalodon, the huge prehistoric shark

www.theguardian.com

No really dinosaur-related, but still a cool story.

 

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80 million-year-old sea monster jaws filled with giant globular teeth for crushing prey discovered in Texas

Rare fossils of the mosasaur Globidens alabamaensis — a 20 foot predator with strange, mushroom-shaped teeth — unearthed in northeastern Texas.

www.livescience.com

 

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Hay Fever Helped To Wipe Out Mammoths In Post Ice Age Ecosystem, Study Claims

Hay fever can ruin a summer’s day, but could it wipe out a species?

www.iflscience.com

 

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Duck-billed dino with absolutely enormous honker unearthed in Mexico

The newly named dinosaur is unique to Mexico, and it's helping change scientists' understanding of dinosaur ranges across the Americas.

www.livescience.com

 

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'Closer than people think': Woolly mammoth 'de-extinction' is nearing reality — and we have no idea what happens next

Scientists are getting very close to bringing a few iconic species, like woolly mammoths and dodos, back from extinction. That may not be a good thing.

www.livescience.com

 

[Spider-Fan83]

 

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This would probably also fit in the Today I Learned thread, too:

The Today I Learned Thread

Here's a thread idea I had, I don't know if anyone's done it before but just post random sniplets of facts you learn, that you've never known. Example: TIL, that the Beastie Boys are Jewish. OR The character Patrick Bateman was loosely based on Tom Cruise.

forums.superherohype.com

 

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We might have a "today I learned there is a today I learned thread"-situation.

 

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Armored dinosaur could withstand the impact of a high-speed car crash, thanks to the 'bulletproof vest' over its plate armor

The new research suggests that this dinosaur's armor was adapted for fighting between members of Borealopelta markmitchelli.

www.livescience.com