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Tank-like physique, bristling with body armour and a collar of spikes the length of golf clubs, Spicomellus afer looks more like a Pokémon creation than a living creature. This bizarre dinosaur roamed the flood planes of what is now north Africa 165m years ago, palaeontologists have revealed. The fossil, the oldest known ankylosaur specimen, was unearthed near the central Moroccan …

Analysis of 18 different carnivorous dinosaur species’ skulls has revealed that not all chompers chewed the same. While Tyrannosaurus rex‘s skull is suited to the high-power crushing motion still favored by crocodiles, other predators of its ilk, like Allosaurus, had weaker jaws that would have slashed or torn the flesh of their prey, in a feeding style more similar to …

Biomechanics study shows how T. rex and other dinosaurs fed on prey  ReutersView Full Coverage on Google News Source link

Published last week in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, a team of Chilean scientists announced the discovery of Yeutherium pressor, a mouse-sized mammal that lived alongside dinosaurs roughly 74 million years ago. Found in the remote Rio de las Chinas Valley in the Magallanes region of southern Chile, the fossil offers an unusually complete glimpse into the diversity …

A peer-reviewed study published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society has documented the discovery of an exceptionally well-preserved fossil of a giant trapdoor spider in New South Wales, Australia. Measuring 23.31 millimeters in body length—about five times larger than modern trapdoor spiders—this extinct species, named Megamonodontium mccluskyi, dates back to the Miocene epoch and offers a rare window …

New research published in the Australasian Journal of Palaeontology has revealed a detailed portrait of an ancient polar ecosystem in what is now southern Australia and Antarctica during the Early Cretaceous period. Despite months of winter darkness, sub-zero temperatures, and icy winds, a variety of dinosaur species lived and adapted to these extreme conditions. Life on the Edge of the …

Fossil Shows a Sharp-Toothed Mammal That Thrived Among Dinosaurs  The New York Times Source link

“And then you have the Spinosaurus which was kind of weird in general,” Rowe says.  “There was a study by Dave Hone and Tom Holtz about how it was waiting on the shorelines, waiting for food to go by that it could fish out.” But Spinosaurus’ foraging wasn’t limited to fishing. There was a pterosaur found preserved in its stomach …

A 225-million-year-old fossil discovered in Africa is rewriting the story of how dinosaurs first emerged. The fossilized leg bone, belonging to a little-known group of reptiles called silesaurs, challenges long-standing beliefs about the size and evolution of the earliest dinosaurs and their closest relatives. A Forgotten Fossil Resurfaces The fossil was first unearthed in 1963 in what is now Zambia …

Despite what the movies tell us, dinosaurs probably didn’t roar at their prey. It’s more likely that they chirped like birds, based on a well-preserved new fossil with an intact voice box. A team of researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences discovered an almost-complete skeleton of a new dinosaur species in northeastern China. This two-legged, 72 centimeter (2.4 foot) …