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Oh yeah, I've heard about that discovery. I could imagine the kind of ideas artists might get with that.
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a new research paper on Italian theropod family trees is gaining traction for it's controversial hypothesis: the Compsognathide family isn't a monophyletic group of animals all descended from each other with the same body plan, but a polyphyletic one with multiple different animals coming up with the same body plan despite not being related. The paper furthermore argues of the potential that some compsognathides are actually misidentified infant dinosaurs which had similar body plans due to the niches they filled, namely arguing that the famously well perserved juvenile compsognathide Scipyonyx is actually a infant carcharodontosaur based on the dating of the rocks and related fauna.
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A new species of Asian Carcharodontosaur that was discovered in the 80's has now been examined and described:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/tripid ... hp&pc=U531

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SoggyNoodles2016 wrote: Tue Sep 07, 2021 11:49 am a new research paper on Italian theropod family trees is gaining traction for it's controversial hypothesis: the Compsognathide family isn't a monophyletic group of animals all descended from each other with the same body plan, but a polyphyletic one with multiple different animals coming up with the same body plan despite not being related. The paper furthermore argues of the potential that some compsognathides are actually misidentified infant dinosaurs which had similar body plans due to the niches they filled, namely arguing that the famously well perserved juvenile compsognathide Scipyonyx is actually a infant carcharodontosaur based on the dating of the rocks and related fauna.
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Greetings All,

I don't post here usually. The subject of Paleontology fascinated me as a child in the 1980's, before Jurassic Park was even written. However, for reasons I will not waste time going into, I decided not to go to college and pursue this path. I still enjoy the subject on some level, however, when you dive into the history and the ego's of scientists, greed, and misinformation, that is really a lot of what turned me off. Now I'm not saying all Paleontologists are fame hunting crooks. I've met several very respectable ones. However, seeing articles like this, they are just very disingenuous.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/res ... 21345.html

The headline is very misleading. In fact I'd say it's downright false. Also, many "discoveries" that have to be walked back weeks, months, or years later, you usually don't hear about those things. So frustrating. All I can say is for genuine enthusiasts, and those pursuing a course in this field: Science is all about Facts. Yes there are theories that may or may not be proven true at some point, and that is fine, as long as you make that solidly known. Jumping to conclusions just for the sake of sensationalism is never good.
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You realize paleontologists aren't the ones writing articles for Yahoo Entertainment, right?

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A new species of Carnivorous dinosaur has been uncovered in Uzbekistan. It has a sorta stupid name if you ask me : https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/ ... -1.6166455

Would've it killed them to name it Uzbekisaurus?

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LegendZilla wrote: Sat Sep 18, 2021 6:53 pm A new species of Carnivorous dinosaur has been uncovered in Uzbekistan. It has a sorta stupid name if you ask me : https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/ ... -1.6166455

Would've it killed them to name it Uzbekisaurus?
Ah yes, naming a dinosaur after an important historical figure from the region, whose moniker also loosely translates to "Great Ruler", is such a stupid thing to do. Should've totally just named it "Geographic Location Lizard #46735872" instead.

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Checked out Museum of the Rockies (Jack Horner's stomping grounds) the other day, I hadn't been there since I was a kid. They have a lot of cool new stuff!

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New African ankylosaur Spicomellus making headlines for two reasons: it's the oldest known hailing from the Middle Jurassic (and coexisted with the oldest stegosaurs funny enough), but it breaks the mold of ankylosaurs with armor on their skins by having spikes growing from it's ribs

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SoggyNoodles2016 wrote: Thu Sep 23, 2021 9:46 am New African ankylosaur Spicomellus making headlines for two reasons: it's the oldest known hailing from the Middle Jurassic (and coexisted with the oldest stegosaurs funny enough), but it breaks the mold of ankylosaurs with armor on their skins by having spikes growing from it's ribs

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Still, is this one of the few times an Ankylosaurand Stegosauru existed together? I think them being in the same area were kinda rare.
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Three new dinosaurs in one day!

From the Isle of Wright, we have Two new spinosaurs: Ceratosuchops and Riparovenator )Rip has the first long tail in the family that Spino made famous with their fin and Cerato has horn like protrusions on the nostrils and eye, hence the name) while from New Mexico, we have Sierraceratops, a chasmosaurine with strange features suggesting it and it's Mexican cousins evolved differently due to being in a different ecosystem then North American species.
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Oh great, another dinosaur with Venator in its name lol
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Lol its far too common.

Also, can't find a source, but apparently they found evidence the reason Rexy has such a heavily built skull with no horns like Daspletosaurus is because they may have headbutted for dominace which imo, is very rad.
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How you you people feel about the idea of various extinct Prehistoric saber-toothed animals such as Smilodon having their lips overlapping their canines? I think it makes practical sense, because always having them exposed like in most depictions will cause wear and tear on them.

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That's almost certainly how it actually was. Every modern cat has lips that fully cover its teeth, even the borderline-sabertoothed clouded leopard. No reason to think their extinct relatives were any different.
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A set of Texas sauropod tracks that were described a couple of years ago may support the old theory of them being able to swim or punt:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technolo ... hp&pc=U531


That and a new hadrosaur genus was recently discovered in southern Missouri, a state not typically associated with dinosaur finds:

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

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New ankylosaur from Chile Stegouros has a unique ax like tail.

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SoggyNoodles2016 wrote: Wed Dec 01, 2021 5:51 pm New ankylosaur from Chile Stegouros has a unique ax like tail.

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This was from a while ago but don't think anyone shared this.

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/10/24/worl ... pe-dna-scn

Some Ice Age megafauna had apparently survived much longer then previously thought. Notably mammoths that isolated populations on mainland Siberia persisted until 3,900 years ago. Roughly around the same time as the Wrangel Island mammoths.

Man, I've always had this fascination of relict populations of prehistoric animals surviving longer especially into historic times. Notable cases such as dire wolves in the Ozarks until 4000 years ago, cave lions in the Balkans until 2000 years ago (Though those lions may have been more closely related to Asiatic lions) the time when Jesus Christ was born, ground sloths such as mylodon in South America until 5300 years ago or Caribbean ground sloths up to the 15th/16th century (There were claims from Spanish explorers having encountered large shaggy beasts which fit these descriptions).

The list goes on.
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