Almost intact 30-foot dinosaur skeleton kept secret until it was fully excavated.
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/man-walking-dog-finds-dinosaur-fossil-2449018
#paleontology
Galerie de Paléontologie
Paris
Photo of the Day
from my daily photo blog
#Museum #Paleontology #Paris #History #Science #Architecture #Photography
Galerie de Paléontologie
a wonderful museum in Paris
Photo of the Day
from my daily photo blog
#Architecture #Photography #museum #Animals #Fossils #Skeleton #History #Paleontology #Science
BBC News - Pliosaur discovery: Huge sea monster emerges from Dorset cliffs
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-67650247
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A lovely combination of video and sound-track!
From a few million years before & after T-Rex and #dinosaurs.
On July 7, 2014, the field of #paleontology was abuzz with the announcement of the discovery of a prehistoric flying bird species of exceptional size. The fossilized remains of this bird were identified as belonging to a new species named #Pelagornis sandersi, in honor of the researcher who made the discovery... #science https://wakonda666.blogspot.com/2023/07/7th-july-2014-discovery-pelagornis.html
#paleontology #fossils #cynodonts #TessellatiaBonapartei An article published in the journal "Scientific Reports" reports the identification of a new species of cynodont that lived about 220 million years ago, in the #Triassic period, in today's Argentina. A team of researchers named it Tessellatia bonapartei after examining a partial skull using an unusual neutron tomography technique.
#paleontology #fossils #evolution #Devonian #QikiqtaniaWakei #TiktaalikRoseae An article published in the journal "Nature" reports the identification of a precursor of the #tetrapods that lived on today's Ellesmere Island, in Canada, in the Devonian period, about 375 million years ago. A team of researchers named it #Qikiqtania wakei and illustrated similarities and differences with #Tiktaalik roseae.
Mysterious ancient giant eggs Down Under laid by Aussie “demon ducks of doom” | Ars Technica
o.O
Demon ducks!
#Australia #sciene #paleontology
Gigantic New Beast – One of the Largest Animals Ever – Discovered High in the Alps #Paleontology #Ichthyosaur https://scitechdaily.com/gigantic-new-beast-one-of-the-largest-animals-ever-discovered-high-in-the-alps/
New armored dinosaur found in Chile had bizarre weaponized tail
https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/01/world/new-armored-dinosaur-weapon-tail-scn/index.html
CLOVIS-FIRST IS CANCELLED —
23,000-year-old footprints suggest people reached the Americas early
People may have walked along the shore of a lake in New Mexico 23,000 years ago.
KIONA N. SMITH - 9/23/2021, 12:00 PM #ClovisPeople #Paleontology https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/09/23000-year-old-footprints-suggest-people-reached-the-americas-early/
Fossil Of Previously Unknown Four-Legged Whale Found In Egypt #Paleontology https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2021/08/fossil-of-previously-unknown-four.html
#paleontology #radiodonts #Cambrian #BurgessShale #Titanokorys #TitanokorysGainesi An article published in the journal “Royal Society Open Science” reports the identification of a new species of radiodont that was named Titanokorys gainesi dating back to about half a billion years ago thanks to #fossils discovered in the famous Burgess Shale.
https://english.netmassimo.com/2021/09/10/titanokorys-gainesi-was-a-marine-predator-that-was-a-giant-by-the-standards-of-half-a-billion-years-ago/
#paleontology #fossils #Cretaceous An article published in the journal "PLoS ONE" reports the attribution of an almost complete #pterosaur skeleton to the Tupandactylus navigans species.
https://english.netmassimo.com/2021/09/02/a-fossil-confiscated-by-brazilian-police-is-the-best-specimen-of-pterosaur-of-the-species-tupandactylus-navigans/