The Dinosaur Thread

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Oldest-known dome-headed dinosaur discovered sticking out of a cliff in Mongolia's Gobi Desert

The juvenile pachycephalosaurs, which predates the previous oldest dome-headed dinosaur by 15 million years, reveals more about how and when this unusual feature developed.

www.livescience.com

 

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Paleontologists Directly Date Dinosaur Eggs for the First Time, Shedding Light on the Cretaceous World 85 Million Years Ago

Using uranium-lead dating, researchers calculated the age of the eggs, rather than the sediments around them, at the Qinglongshan site in China

www.smithsonianmag.com

 

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https://www.livescience.com/animals/dinosaurs/gigantic-dinosaur-with-claws-like-hedge-trimmers-found-with-croc-leg-still-in-its-jaws-in-argentina

 

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Mosasaurs Once Lived in Earth's Oceans—and Paleontologists Found Their Fossils in New Jersey

Large aquatic lizards used to populate the planet's oceans–and you can find their fossils in suburban New Jersey.

www.popularmechanics.com

 

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Paleontologists Discover New Species of Iguanodontian Dinosaur | Sci.News

A team of paleontologists from Portugal, Italy, the United States and Belgium has added another species of herbivorous dinosaur to the prehistoric catalog: Cariocecus bocagei.

www.sci.news

 

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New species of Jurassic 'sword dragon' could help solve an evolutionary mystery

The newly discovered ichthyosaur dubbed Xiphodracon goldencapsis was about 10 feet long and had a sword-shaped snout.

www.livescience.com

 

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Paleontologists Identify New Species of Flat-Headed Herbivorous Dinosaur | Sci.News

A new genus and species of hadrosaurid dinosaur that lived during the Cretaceous period in what is now New Mexico has been identified and named by paleontologists from the United States and Slovak Republic.

www.sci.news

 

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North America’s Largest Ever Land Animal Was A 21-Meter-Long Titan

And it’s also the source of an intriguing mystery.

www.iflscience.com

 

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Dinosaurs were thriving when the asteroid struck

Dinosaurs weren’t dying out before the asteroid hit—they were thriving in vibrant, diverse habitats across North America. Fossil evidence from New Mexico shows that distinct “bioprovinces” of dinosaurs existed until the very end. Their extinction was sudden, not gradual, and the recovery of life...

www.sciencedaily.com

 

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Australian 'drop crocs' unlock insights into ancient ecosystems

In a local grazier's backyard in the small southeast QLD town of Murgon, scientists have been digging for decades in what looks like an unremarkable clay pit. But within the clay lies one of Australia's oldest fossil sites—a window back in time to when the continent was still connected to...

phys.org

 

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A 400-million-year-old plant creates water so weird it looks alien

Researchers discovered that living horsetails act like natural distillation towers, producing bizarre oxygen isotope signatures more extreme than anything previously recorded on Earth—sometimes resembling meteorite water. By tracing these isotopic shifts from the plant base to its tip...

www.sciencedaily.com