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This 550-Million-Year-Old Animal Already Had Favorite Way to Turn
3+ hour, 10+ min ago (292+ words) Home › Animal & Wildlife News Reviewed by Patrisha Antonaros Research led by Scott D. Evans (Florida State University) A fossil of Spriggina floundersi collected in South Australia. Because these fossils preserve mirror-image impressions of the original animals, a leftward bend in…...
Meet The Newly Discovered Cousin Of Velociraptor That Probably Glided On Four Wings
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (260+ words) Research led by Matt Lamanna (Carnegie Museum of Natural History’s Mary R. Dawson Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology) The new microraptor dinosaur Jian changmaensis (left) attacks the early bird Gansus yumenensis (right) in what is now the Changma Basin of northwestern…...
Ancient Aura Farming? 121-Million-Year-Old Bird Had A Gigantic Tail, Possibly To Impress Mates
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (630+ words) Home › Animal & Wildlife News Research led by Alexander D. Clark (University of Chicago), Xiaoli Wang (Lingyi University) A potential male and female of the newly named taxa Plumadraco bankoorum. (Artwork by Ville Sinkkonen, CC-BY 4.0) A newly identified ancient bird species…...
Another T-Rex: Ancient Texas Was Home To Gigantic Sea Predator
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (247+ words) Research led by Amelia Zietlow (American Museum of Natural History), Ron Tykoski (Perot Museum of Nature and Science), and Michael Polcyn (Southern Methodist University) A reconstruction of Tylosaurus rex in the Cretaceous-era Western Interior Seaway of North America. (Credit: Courtesy…...
The 'Last Titan' Of Thailand: Scientists Discover New Dinosaur Species
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (612+ words) Published in Scientific Reports, the discovery is the first diagnostic sauropod specimen from Thailand’s Khok Kruat Formation, complete enough to identify as a new species, and it belongs to a group of four-legged, long-necked giants that includes the largest land…...