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L.A.’s newest dinosaur has its forever name
6 months ago

L.A.’s newest dinosaur has its forever name

LA Times  

Mounting technician Kevin Krudwig installs a temporary styrofoam head on “Gnatalie,” a new fossil sauropod exhibit coming to the Natural History Museum in Los Angeles. Dinosaur fans who responded to the museum’s request for input overwhelmingly chose to call the Natural History Museum’s new 70-foot-long sauropod “Gnatalie.” More than 36% of roughly 8,100 participants in a public poll chose that …

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Oldest yet fossils of a plant-eating dinosaur found in Rajasthan
1 year, 3 months ago

Oldest yet fossils of a plant-eating dinosaur found in Rajasthan

The Hindu  

In a paper published recently in Scientific Reports, scientists from IIT Roorkee have characterised dinosaur fossils from the Middle Jurassic period, found in the Thar desert near the Jaisalmer Basin by the Geological Survey of India. 167 million years old “The most fascinating feature about sauropods is their size,” said Debajit Datta, a postdoctoral researcher in Sunil Bajpai’s group at …

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How to build a giant? Sauropod dinosaurs did it 36 different ways
1 year, 7 months ago

How to build a giant? Sauropod dinosaurs did it 36 different ways

The Hindu  

Sauropods, those familiar plant-eating dinosaurs with long necks, long tails and four pillar-like legs, were the biggest land animals in Earth's history, reaching 100-120 feet long and weighing as much as a tractor-trailer. The heavyweight champion was Argentinosaurus, which lived about 95 million years ago in - you guessed it - Argentina, and weighed about 76 metric tons. Next were …

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Retired science teacher finds 130-million-year-old dinosaur tracks next to Broome boat ramp
3 years, 5 months ago

Retired science teacher finds 130-million-year-old dinosaur tracks next to Broome boat ramp

ABC  

Dinosaur experts say a pair of 130-million-year-old tracks next to a popular Broome boat ramp show the footprints of a brontosaurus-type dinosaur next to a tyrannosaurus-type dinosaur, and has never been documented previously. Key points: A set of dinosaur tracks have been documented for the first time near a Broome boat ramp The theropod and sauropod tracks are about 130 …

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Introducing Australotitan: Australia's largest dinosaur was as big as two buses combined
3 years, 6 months ago

Introducing Australotitan: Australia's largest dinosaur was as big as two buses combined

Firstpost  

Nicknamed Cooper, it lived in southwest Queensland between 92–96 million years ago, when Australia was attached to Antarctica. Our study published in the journal PeerJ documents Australotitan cooperensis – Australia’s largest dinosaur species ever discovered, and the largest land-dwelling species to have walked the outback. Thousands of kilograms bones in a backpack We needed to compare Cooper’s bones to all …

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100 million-year-old bones of sauropod dinosaurs discovered in Meghalaya
3 years, 7 months ago

100 million-year-old bones of sauropod dinosaurs discovered in Meghalaya

Hindustan Times  

Researchers have identified fossil bone fragments of sauropod dinosaurs dating back to about 100 million years from an area around West Khasi Hills District in Meghalaya. The finding makes Meghalaya the fifth state in India after Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Tamil Nadu and the only state in the North-East to report Sauropod bones having titanosaurian affinity, they said. The …

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100 million-year-old bones of sauropod dinosaurs discovered in Meghalaya
3 years, 7 months ago

100 million-year-old bones of sauropod dinosaurs discovered in Meghalaya

India TV News  

Researchers have identified fossil bone fragments of sauropod dinosaurs dating back to about 100 million years from an area around West Khasi Hills District in Meghalaya. The finding makes Meghalaya the fifth state in India after Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Tamil Nadu and the only state in the North-East to report Sauropod bones having titanosaurian affinity, they said. He …

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Dinosaur bones dating back to 100 million years found in Meghalaya
3 years, 7 months ago

Dinosaur bones dating back to 100 million years found in Meghalaya

India Today  

Researchers have identified fossil bone fragments of sauropod dinosaurs dating back to about 100 million years from an area around West Khasi Hills District in Meghalaya. Read | South India's N440K Covid variant 15 times more lethal, indicates data The finding makes Meghalaya the fifth state in India after Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Tamil Nadu and the only state …

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Dinosaur fossils found in Argentina could belong to largest creature ever to have walked the Earth
3 years, 11 months ago

Dinosaur fossils found in Argentina could belong to largest creature ever to have walked the Earth

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. A collection of bones found in Neuquén Province in northwest Patagonia have been identified as …

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