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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