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Paleontologists recently uncovered a new species of dinosaur with a remarkable set of characteristics, offering new insights into the evolutionary relationship between theropod dinosaurs and modern birds. The species, named Shri rapax, was identified from an almost complete and articulated skeleton that dates back to the Late Cretaceous period, approximately 75 to 72 million years ago. The discovery, described in …

Paleontologists have identified a new species of dromaeosaurid dinosaur from an almost complete and articulated skeleton found in the 2000s in Mongolia. Life reconstruction of Shri rapax. Image credit: Connor Ashbridge / CC BY 4.0. The newly-identified dinosaur roamed our planet during the Campanian age of the Cretaceous period, between 75 and 72 million years ago. Based on several derived …

A new study, published in the Cambridge Archaeological Journal by Dr. Esther Jacobson-Tepfer, reveals an astonishing transformation in elk images in 12,000 years of Altai rock art in western Mongolia. Once drawn in realistic detail, elk gradually evolved into stylized, nearly unrecognizable wolf-like figures, reflecting deep transformations of environment, mobility, and identity. Stylized elk. Credit: Gary Tepfer, in Jacobson-Tepfer, Cambridge …