The Dinosaur Thread

[Teelie]

Would love to have seen one of those things alive, fending off high speed cars or not.

 

[blueharvest]

We’re closer to re-creating the sounds of Parasaurolophus

Preliminary model suggests the dinosaur bellowed like a large trumpet or saxophone, or perhaps a clarinet.

arstechnica.com

 

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Dinosaur puke and poop help reveal how they took over the world

Fossilized digestive material offers unparalleled insights into the dinosaurs' diets, feeding behaviors and parasites.

www.livescience.com

 

[Brutikus]

Paleontology breakthrough as size of 'terror bird' unearthed in new discovery

Frightening as the massive beaked predator was, it was no match for the even more terrifying creature which made a meal of it, scientists believe.

www.express.co.uk

 

[blueharvest]

Scientists Discover Prehistoric Saber-Toothed Predator That Predates the Dinosaurs

“Vaguely dog-like” animal is one of the oldest-known close cousins of modern mammals. Researchers have discovered the oldest gorgonopsian fossil on Mallorca, dating from 270-280 million years ago. This therapsid, a saber-toothed predator, offers new insights into the evolutionary lineage leading

scitechdaily.com

 

[Breogan]

Scientists Discover Prehistoric Saber-Toothed Predator That Predates the Dinosaurs

“Vaguely dog-like” animal is one of the oldest-known close cousins of modern mammals. Researchers have discovered the oldest gorgonopsian fossil on Mallorca, dating from 270-280 million years ago. This therapsid, a saber-toothed predator, offers new insights into the evolutionary lineage leading

scitechdaily.com

“Vaguely dog-like” animal is one of the oldest-known close cousins of modern mammals.
Researchers have discovered the oldest gorgonopsian fossil on Mallorca,

Gorgonospian?
Wasn't this guy Mando's Best Friend?

 

[blueharvest]

Giant sloths and mastodons lived with humans for millennia in the Americas, new discoveries suggest

New discoveries from several archaeological sites in North and South America suggest that ancient people first arrived in the New World much earlier than scientists once thought.

apnews.com

 

[blueharvest]

Baby mammoth in Russia is the ‘best-preserved’ ever found

The 50,000-year-old female, nicknamed Yana, is one of only seven whole remains discovered in world

www.theguardian.com

 

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230 million-year-old dinosaur is oldest ever discovered in North America — and changes what we know about how they conquered Earth

A newfound "chicken-size" dinosaur, recently unearthed in Wyoming, changes what paleontologists thought they knew about how dinosaurs spread across the globe.

www.livescience.com

 

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Giant horned dinosaur's fossils were destroyed in WWII — but photos reveal it was an unknown species

Scientists have unveiled a giant horned dinosaur from Egypt called Tameryraptor markgrafi after discovering lost photos of fossils destroyed in WWII.

www.livescience.com

 

[Brutikus]

Perfectly Preserved Dinosaur Embryo Found Inside Fossilized Egg

The 66- to 72-million-year-old specimen is one of the most complete dinosaur embryos ever found.

www.iflscience.com

 

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Whale Ancestor Crawled Out Of The Sea 400 Million Years Ago – And Then Crawled Back In

The Uno reverse card of evolution.

www.iflscience.com

 

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Secrets of 1st dinosaurs lie in the Sahara and Amazon rainforest, study suggests

The first dinosaurs may have evolved near the equator, and not in the southwest of the supercontinent Gondwana, as researchers previously assumed due to an abundance of fossils in places like Argentina and Zimbabwe.

www.livescience.com

 

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[Spider-Fan83]

An interesting read on a theory of dinosaurs origin of where they came from ...

Where did dinosaurs come from? Scientists say they figured it out

Study suggests dinosaurs originated in the Amazon, but their fossils are missing. They started as small, bipedal creatures in a hot climate.

www.earth.com

Personally I like the theory of them being from different galaxy (that like our planets rotate around the sun, our solar system rotates around the center of the universe) an a million years ago we would have been in a whole different selection of the galaxy

Maybe dinosaurs live could only be sustained in that part of the galaxy ... Who knows

 

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Fossil discovery in Australia reveals 'upside down' dinosaur ecosystem with 2 giant predators

A new study has revealed that "hug of death" megaraptorids and previously unknown carcharodontosaurs shared Australia's unique Antarctic dinosaur ecosystem during the Cretaceous.

www.livescience.com

 

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Giant Flying Squirrel Soared Through The North American Skies Nearly 5 Million Years Ago

This might sound nuts, but the squirrel was the size of a modern cat. Imagine that flying overhead.

www.iflscience.com

 

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125 million-year-old fossil of giant venomous scorpion that lived alongside dinosaurs discovered in China

Extremely rare fossil of an ancient scorpion unearthed at China's Jehol Biota. The scorpion would've been a key species in the Cretaceous ecosystem, scientists say.

www.livescience.com

 

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52-foot-high 'megaripples' from asteroid that killed the dinosaurs mapped deep beneath Louisiana in 3D

Buried "megaripples" — some the size of five-story buildings — are helping scientists piece together the devastation following the impact that wiped out the nonavian dinosaurs.

www.livescience.com