The Paleontology Thread

[Leviarex]

Two well preserved Cave Lion cubs that were discovered in Russia a few years ago, have recently been unveiled:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/tw ... d=msedgntp

[SoggyNoodles2016]

A new study on Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus (the famous New Mexican short crest species) has discovered in actuality, the short crested specimens we have seem to be subadults....and in actuality, cyrtocristatus was a normal crested parasaur that, based on estimates of the skull we have, was 43 feet long and 13 tons


...and people think crests are why I love hadrosaurs.

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[JAGzilla]

Well, I, for one, welcome our new BIG! Parasaurolophus overlords.

I was just watching a video about unknown unknowns in paleontology the other day, and then this happens. Here we have one of the most familiar of dinosaurs, staple of bargain bin toy lines and coloring books and oatmeal boxes. We think we know it well... and then it turns out to be fucking huge. What else don't we know?

[Gigantis]

Oh lawd that is a big boi

Speaking of big bois, i did some research on prehistoric crocodiles yesterday.. and now i'm suddenly wondering why it's almost always Deinosuchus and Sarchosuchus getting portrayed in media. Purrusaurus deserves love!

[SoggyNoodles2016]

Oh lawd that is a big boi

People always act like hadrosaurs were hunted by tyrannosaurs because they were defenseless.

They don't realize ONE adult would feed them for like a month lol.

Speaking of big bois, i did some research on prehistoric crocodiles yesterday.. and now i'm suddenly wondering why it's almost always Deinosuchus and Sarchosuchus getting portrayed in media. Purrusaurus deserves love!

Agreed fully.

Sadly, without breaking the laws of accuracy, we can't have it eaten dinosaurs and that's a deal breaker for most paleomedia creators

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Well, I, for one, welcome our new BIG! Parasaurolophus overlords.

I was just watching a video about unknown unknowns in paleontology the other day, and then this happens. Here we have one of the most familiar of dinosaurs, staple of bargain bin toy lines and coloring books and oatmeal boxes. We think we know it well... and then it turns out to be skreeonking huge. What else don't we know?

It's so crazy lol. It's why I love Paleontology, there's always something insane and new

[NSZ]

Speaking of big bois, i did some research on prehistoric crocodiles yesterday.. and now i'm suddenly wondering why it's almost always Deinosuchus and Sarchosuchus getting portrayed in media. Purrusaurus deserves love!

Likely because Deinosuchus & Sarcosuchus are dino contemporaries, while Purussaurus and fellow contemporary Gryposuchus hail from a time humans would much rather view as completely free of Mesozoic-sized reptiles for presumably collective sanity reasons.

[Tyrant_Lizard_King]

Never realized but PNSO has been releasing their dinosaurs books in English over the past several months.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1612545181?aa ... 3383600101

https://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Dinosaur ... 629&sr=8-1

https://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Ancient- ... NrPXRydWU=

[JAGzilla]

A new study on Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus

What was the source for this, out of curiosity? I would've thought a cool discovery like this would be making headlines by now, but I haven't seen anything yet. Even a little bit of searching hasn't turned anything up.

[SoggyNoodles2016]

A new study on Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus

What was the source for this, out of curiosity? I would've thought a cool discovery like this would be making headlines by now, but I haven't seen anything yet. Even a little bit of searching hasn't turned anything up.

Scientific paper is apparently somewhere but I heard about it from the Twitter of the paleoartist who did that skeletal I posted.

[TyrantGojira]

https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8v08w2d6



Let me introduce you to the Hell Creek Mosasaur

[Kiryu2012]

https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8v08w2d6

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/ ... AECbc8.png

Let me introduce you to the Hell Creek Mosasaur

Him licky the foot.

For real, that's pretty cool.

[SoggyNoodles2016]

https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8v08w2d6



Let me introduce you to the Hell Creek Mosasaur

Saurian is now so accurate it put in stuff that hadn't been found yet.

[Voyager]

https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8v08w2d6



Let me introduce you to the Hell Creek Mosasaur

Well I’ll be damned. Hell Creek, you’re on lucky formation.

[SoggyNoodles2016]

https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8v08w2d6



Let me introduce you to the Hell Creek Mosasaur

Well I’ll be damned. Hell Creek, you’re on lucky formation.

Inb4 we find a carcharodontosaur and it turns out the Imax Dominion clip wasn't half off

[Gigantis]

I found the old recreation of the Addams Mammoth on Wikipedia and it needed to be shared lol


It's honestly amazing how we went from this to modern mammoth recreations.. seriously, thing looks like a shitpost.

[Dracosaurian]

I'm looking forward to this!

[Tyrant_Lizard_King]

A police raid in Brazil uncovers one of the most complete Pterosaur fossils ever discovered.

https://www.cnet.com/google-amp/news/po ... condition/

[Dracosaurian]

[mikelcho]

I found the old recreation of the Addams Mammoth on Wikipedia and it needed to be shared lol


It's honestly amazing how we went from this to modern mammoth recreations.. seriously, thing looks like a shitpost.

IIRC, I think it's supposed to be a huge mole.

[SoggyNoodles2016]

a new Brazilian abelisaur with an....... interesting name

Kurupi itaata, a Masstrichtian species that was 16 feet long and built for speed, was discovered near a hotel with a reputation for couples coming for specific....reasons, hence it's genus name after a local fertility god and it's species name which roughly translate to.....

Spoiler:

.....I miss Thanos