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The largest dinosaur foot ever belongs to ‘Bigfoot’

sudshr47 July 25, 2018

The largest dinosaur foot ever found, belonging to one of the largest land animals this planet’s ever seen, surely deserves the title “Bigfoot” more than Sasquatch.

Excavated in 1998 by an expedition from the University of Kansas, and described in a new study published in PeerJ – the Journal of Life and Environmental Sciences, “Bigfoot” was discovered in the Black Hills area of Wyoming. Scientists determined the dinosaur — a very close relative of Brachiosaurus — had the biggest feet of any sauropod, and roamed the area 150 million years ago.

Crew member Anthony Maltese, who is also the lead author of the study, writes that the foot was nearly 1 meter wide. It didn’t belong to the largest dinosaur ever discovered, the study said, but “Bigfoot” did have particularly large feet. Read more…

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At 99 million years old, this baby snake fossil is the first of its kind to be discovered

sudshr47 July 19, 2018

Palaeontologists have found a tiny fossilized baby snake, the first of its kind to be discovered.
The snake embryo, sitting within a chunk of amber from Myanmar, was preserved in the early Late Cretaceous period approximately 99 million years ago, ac…

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An extinct gibbon was found buried in an ancient tomb. Did humans kill them off?

sudshr47 June 21, 2018

Inside a desk drawer at a Chinese museum, a British paleontologist came across the face and jaw bones of a long-dead gibbon in 2009.
Five years earlier, scientists had discovered the bones inside an elaborate 2,200-year-old tomb belonging to a woman …

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sudshr47 November 1, 2017

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Coursera offers a course in Dinosaur Paleobiology, amazingly titled “Dino 101” and taught by Professor Philip John Currie of the University of Alberta. This class provides “a comprehensive overview of non-avian dinosaurs” from dinosaur anatomy all the way to their extinction. Each module includes at least three video lessons that are filmed in museums, labs, and dig sites — AKA where dinosaur research actually happens. Read more…

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