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A few rocks spotted near a pond in northeastern Thailand in 2016 have just been confirmed as a 27-tonne, 27-metre sauropod " the largest dinosaur ever found in Southeast Asia
7+ hour, 46+ min ago (575+ words) In 2016, a local man named Thanom Luangnan was walking near a drying pond in Chaiyaphum Province, in the arid northeast of Thailand, when he noticed something that didn't look right. There were bones exposed in the dirt at the edge…...
Barbara Sherwood Lollar of the University of Toronto tasted water that had been sealed in rock three kilometres below a Canadian mine for roughly two billion years " water so salty and bitter it carried a flavour shaped entirely before animals, plants, or anything with a tongue had ever existed
8+ hour, 34+ min ago (389+ words) The strangest part of the story is not only that the water was old. It is that someone tasted it. Barbara Sherwood Lollar, a University of Toronto...
Pterosaur Wings Were Probably Far More Varied Than Reconstructions Suggest
2+ week, 3+ day ago (25+ words) The one thing every pterosaur reconstruction needs is the one thing no pterosaur fossil preserves. The wing membrane, that thin sheet of skin and muscle...
Our Ancestors Got Bigger in One Late Leap, Not a Slow Climb Toward Modern Humans
2+ week, 3+ day ago (143+ words) Lay 386 fossil bodies out across two and a half million years and the shape they make is not the one you were taught. There is no tidy ramp, no steady...
New T. Rex Was a Sea Monster, and It Was Hiding in Texas Museum Drawers
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (0+ words) ...
Baby Dinosaurs Ate Better Than Their Parents, Fossil Teeth Reveal
2+ mon, 1+ day ago (224+ words) Artist's reconstruction of adult Maiasaura and young. Illustration by Brian Regal. That asymmetry, it turns out, probably reflects parental feeding behavior so sophisticated it had no real precedent on land at the time, something that looks, rather remarkably, like the…...
Cretaceous Amber Preserves 99-Million-Year-Old Ant Interactions With Mites and Spiders
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (613+ words) Science Blog. com...
Explaining Why Triceratops Had Such a Big Nose
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (433+ words) Science Blog. com...
Baby Dinosaurs Were the Ultimate Fast Food for Jurassic Predators
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (262+ words) Ecosystem reconstruction of the Late Jurassic Dry Mesa Dinosaur Quarry around 150 million years ago in Colorado, the United States. The bones tell a brutal story. At a quarry in Colorado, palaeontologists have pieced together food webs from 150 million years ago,…...
T. Rex Didn't Hit Peak Size Until Age 40
5+ mon, 3+ week ago (436+ words) Tyrannosaurus rex took four decades to finish growing. That's 15 years longer than paleontologists thought and this changes how we picture the most famous predator that ever lived. The new timeline comes from bone analysis of 17 T. rex specimens, the largest dataset…...