Dinosaur-Age Sea Monster With 'Face Full of Huge, Dagger-Shaped Teeth' Discovered in Moroccan Mine
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LIVESCIENCE ^
| 3/6 | Jennifer Nalewicki
Extinct marine lizard the size of an orca with sharp teeth and a strong jaw was a top predator during the dinosaur age. Paleontologists
in Morocco have discovered the fossilized remains of a huge, never-before-seen species of marine lizard with "dagger-like" teeth. The reptile was around 26 feet (8 meters) long — about the same length as an orca — and hunted in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of what is now Africa at the end of the dinosaur age, about 66 million years ago, according to a study published March 1 in the journal Cretaceous Research. The creature...
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Paleontology Enthusiast Found 70-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Fossil While Walking His Dog
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New York Post ^
| March 6, 2024 | Alyssa Guzman
A French man was on an everyday stroll with his dog Muffin when they stumbled upon a 70-million-year-old dinosaur fossil that took two years to dig up. Damien
Boschetto and Muffin were walking in the forests of Montouliers in the South of France near his home when the paleontology enthusiast discovered bones sticking out of the cliffside in 2022, according to CBS News. The bones belonged to a nearly-complete skeleton of a long-necked titanosaur, he told ABC News. “It happened one morning like any other, during an ordinary walk,” he told the outlet. “The territory around Cruzy is rich in...
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Scientists discover 240-million-year-old dinosaur that resembles a "mythical Chinese dragon"
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CBS News ^
| February 23, 2024 | Caitlin O'Kane
A team of international scientists have discovered 240-million-year-old fossils from the Triassic period in China that one scientist described as a "long and snake-like, mythical Chinese dragon." The
16-foot-long aquatic reptile, called Dinocephalosaurus orientalis, has 32 separate neck vertebrae – an extremely long neck, according to the National Museums of Scotland, which announced the news on Friday. The new fossil has a snake-like appearance and flippers and was found in the Guizhou Province of southern China. Dinocephalosaurus orientalis was first identified in 2003 when its skull was found, but this more complete fossil discovery has "allowed scientists to depict the...
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Utah Indicts Four on ‘Conspiracy Against the United States’ After They Allegedly Stole Over $1 Million in Dinosaur Bones, Tried to Sell Them to China
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Gateway Pundit ^
| Oct. 20, 2023 7:15 am | By Cassandra MacDonald
A federal grand jury in Utah has indicted four people for attempting to illegally sell $1 million worth of paleontological resources, including to buyers in China. The stolen goods include 150,000 pounds of paleontological resources, including dinosaur bones, removed from federal and state lands in southeastern Utah, in violation of the Paleontological
Resources Preservation Act (PRPA). Vint Wade, 65, and Donna Wade, 67, of Moab; Steven Willing, 67, of Los Angeles, California; and Jordan Willing, 40 of Ashland, Oregon, have been charged with causing $3 million in damages by stealing more than $1 million in paleontological resources, which included dinosaur...
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Hundreds of three-eyed 'dinosaur shrimp' emerge from mud pits at Burning Man as 70,000 revelers escaped flooded Nevada festival
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daily mail ^
Heavy rains that poured down on 70,000 Burning Man attendees have also awoken hundreds of three-eyed 'dinosaur shrimp' from their slumber. The
small creatures, known as fairy shrimp, were encased in a thick shell for years until rainstorms drenched the Nevada festival, typically a dry wasteland, and provided an optimal environment to hatch. The crustaceans were spotted emerging from the mud pits as revelers escaped the flooded desert and will start laying more eggs over the next week. Fairy shrimp are known as 'living fossils' as similar forms date back to the Cambrian Period, more than 500 million years ago....
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Hunters bag 920-pound ‘dinosaur’ alligator: ‘I thought I was going to die’
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NY Post ^
| 09/01/2023 | Ben Cost
Thought last week’s Mississippi monster was impressive? A
team of hunters put those gator grabbers to shame after hauling a more than 900-pound “dinosaur” gator from a Florida lake, as seen in jaw-dropping videos and photos making waves online. “I had fear like I never felt before,” Kevin Grotz, an outdoorsman who runs the outfit Florida Gator Hunting, told Orlando station WESH 2 of corralling the huge beast. Weighing a whopping 920 pounds and measuring 13.3 feet long, the gatorzilla was the second largest specimen ever harvested in the state — with the biggest weighing 1,000 pounds. The lifelong Floridian...
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'That face is unsettling as hell': Barney fans SLAM the purple dinosaur's new look after getting a CGI makeover from Mattel
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Daily Mail ^
Barney's new look is facing scrutiny across social media, after Mattel, Inc unveiled his CGI makeover on Monday while teasing the relaunch of his beloved franchise. In
response to the purple dinosaur's new look, which included a wider grin, gap between his teeth and green eyes, many were left wondering why the company choose to fix some that 'wasn't broken.' 'Why does Barney look like he’s sky high cracked on cocaine? That face is unsettling as hell,' one Twitter user asked as more expressed horror over his new face and teeth. On Monday, Mattel, Inc. announced it will be relaunching...
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Rare Dinosaur Fossil Found With Perfectly Preserved Final Meal Inside
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Nature via Science Alert ^
| December 23, 2022 | Fiona MacDonald
Around 120 million years ago, four-winged dinosaurs roughly the size of crows called Microraptors stalked the ancient woodlands of what is now China.While researchers have studied several Microraptor specimens, there's still a lot we don't know about these feathered bird-like creatures – including what and how they ate.Now an incredibly rare fossil
has revealed the preserved final meal of one individual: and unexpectedly, it was a mammal...The first Microraptor fossil was found in Liaoning, China, in 2000. There are three known species, which lived in the early Cretacious period, and the fossil in question belongs to Microraptor zhaoianus...The Microraptors were...
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Newly identified dinosaur that lived on island of dwarfed creatures had an unusual head
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CNN ^
| November 28, 2022 | Katie Hunt,
Discovered in what’s now western Romania, the Transylvanosaurus platycephalus (flatheaded reptile from Transylvania) was 2 meters (6 feet) long — a relatively small size for a dinosaur, according to a new study. Its
skull bones were unearthed in 2007 in a riverbed of the Haţeg Basin. In the Cretaceous Period, this region of Romania was a tropical archipelago. Dinosaurs living there were smaller than their relatives elsewhere; paleontologists think these dinosaurs were an example of what biologists call “island rule,” where large animals isolated on islands become dwarfed or stunted in their growth over time and small animals become larger....
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Öko-fanatiker! German climate change zealots glue themselves to DINOSAUR skeleton at Berlin's Natural History Museum in latest stunt
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UK Daily Mail ^
| October 30, 2022 | Elizabeth Haigh
Two environmental activists glued themselves to an exhibition of a dinosaur skeleton at Berlin's Natural History Museum on Sunday to protest against the German government's climate policies. In
Berlin, two women wearing orange vests stuck themselves to metal poles supporting a dinosaur skeleton that was over 60 million years old, holding a banner that read: 'What if the government doesn't have it under control?' They did not touch or do any damage to the skeleton itself.
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Drought uncovers dinosaur tracks in US park (Dinosaur Valley State Park, near Dallas)
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Phys.org ^
| 8/23/2022
A handout image obtained on August 23, 2022 courtesy of the Dinosaur Valley State Park shows dinosaur tracks from around 113 million years ago. A
drought in Texas dried up a river flowing through Dinosaur Valley State Park, exposing tracks from giant reptiles that lived some 113 million years ago, an official said Tuesday. Photos posted on Facebook show three-toed footprints leading down a dry tree-lined riverbed in the southern US state. It is "one of the longest dinosaur trackways in the world," a caption accompanying the images says. Stephanie Salinas Garcia of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department...
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EXCLUSIVE: 'What do you call a lesbian dinosaur...?' Owner of Florida diner Sweeties posts irreverent messages on its marquee – often insulting town mayor and chief of police – to the amusement of motorists and the dismay of woke warriors
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Daily Mail UK ^
| July 20, 2022 | Jose Lambiet
A business owner in Fort Pierce, Florida, has been driving officials in the coastal town bonkers with his weekly messages on the marquee of his diner, Sweeties. Irreverent at times, often rude and always a woke warrior's worst enemy, the messages routinely take aim at the chief of police and the mayor.
And Sweeties, partly owned by 63-year-old Rick Reed, happens to be at the highest-traffic corner of the city. It's a forced passage for thousands of motorists to I-95, the area's transportation lifeline. Last week's sign reads: 'What do you call a lesbian dinosaur? Lickalotofp***' While borderline homophobic and...
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76 million-year-old dinosaur skeleton to be auctioned in NYC
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7/5 | Evelyn Blackwell
The fossilized skeleton of a T. rex relative that roamed the earth about 76 million years ago will be auctioned in New York this month, Sotheby’s announced Tuesday. The Gorgosaurus skeleton will highlight Sotheby’s natural history auction on July 28, the auction house said. The
Gorgosaurus was an apex carnivore that lived in what is now the western United States and Canada during the late Cretaceous Period. It predated its relative the Tyrannosaurus rex by 10 million years. The specimen being sold was discovered in 2018 in the Judith River Formation near Havre, Montana, Sotheby’s said. It measures nearly 10...
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Tanis: 'First dinosaur fossil linked to asteroid strike'
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Yahoo-BBC Science ^
| 4-6-2022 | Jonathan Amos
The limb, complete with skin, is just one of a series of remarkable finds emerging from the Tanis fossil site in the US State of North Dakota. But it's not just their exquisite condition that's turning heads - it's what these ancient specimens purport to represent. The
claim is the Tanis creatures were killed and entombed on the actual day a giant asteroid struck Earth. The day 66 million years ago when the reign of the dinosaurs ended and the rise of mammals began. The BBC has spent three years filming at Tanis for a show to be broadcast on...
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The oldest dinosaur precursor from South America is discovered in Brazil
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Phys.org ^
| 3/4/2022 | by Universidade Federal de Santa Maria
Credit: skeleton by Maurício Silva Garcia; photo and composition by Rodrigo Temp MüllerPaleontologists from the Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM) published a study in the scientific periodic Gondwana Research describing the new fossilized specimen.The oldest dinosaurs have been excavated from fossiliferous layers with approximately 233 million years from Brazil and
Argentina. Furthermore, some older Argentinean deposits revealed remains of dinosaur precursors, which provide crucial data on the origin of "true" dinosaurs. These creatures lived approximately 236 million years ago and were small, with no more than 1 meter in length.Whereas the fossil record of dinosaur precursors is relatively...
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Dino-Sore Throat — First Evidence Of Dinosaur Respiratory Infection Found In A 150 Million Year Old Fossil Called ‘Dolly’ (Extinct from COVID-BC?)
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Forbes ^
| 2/10/22 | Robert Hart
A long-necked dinosaur that roamed present-day Montana 150 million years ago likely suffered from a respiratory infection, according to a study published in Scientific Reports on Thursday, the first evidence of a respiratory infection in dinosaurs which experts believe could have caused flu-like symptoms including coughing and fever
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Utah Officials Accused Of Driving Over Precious Dinosaur Footprints In Heavy Machinery [BLM]
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https://www.iflscience.com ^
| February 8, 2022 | Jack Dunhill
Palaeontologists are claiming Utah officials have driven over a precious fossil site after dismantling a boardwalk nearby, possibly irreparably damaging preserved dinosaur footprints and animal tracks. These
ancient remnants are extremely delicate and cannot be easily seen, according to sources speaking to Gizmodo, but contain more than 200 dinosaur tracks left by 10 distinct species. The Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) has since filed a cease-and-desist letter against the US Bureau of Land Management Utah office, calling for the immediate halt of the destruction of Mill Canyon Dinosaur Tracksite near Moab. The alleged destruction comes as a result of the...
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A Dinosaur Skeleton Goes to Auction
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barnebys.com ^
| November 22, 2021 | barnebys.com
Meet Henry, the dinosaur that will go to auction during the prestigious sale of Modern and Contemporary Art at Cambi on December 14 in Milan, Italy. Henry is a Hypacrosaurus skeleton, an ornithopod dinosaur belonging to the hadrosaurid family, dating back to the Upper Cretaceous, Campanian era (75-67 million years ago). Due
to the more moderate size of its skeleton compared to Tyrannosaurus, its name means "near the highest lizard" and is distinguished by the high curve of its spine and the characteristic shape of the tall and rounded crest. Henry measures 13 feet long and was collected in a...
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“Largest Meat-Eating Predatory Dinosaur” of Triassic Period, Actually a Timid Vegetarian
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https://scitechdaily.com ^
| 21 OCTOBER 2021 | By TAYLOR & FRANCIS GROUP
Life reconstruction of herbivorous dinosaurs based on 220-million-year-old fossil footprints from Ipswich, Queensland, Australia. Credit: Anthony Romilio ======================================== “Raptor-like” dinosaur discovered in an Australian mine, actually uncovered as a timid vegetarian. 50-year-old
findings of the Triassic period’s “largest meat-eating dinosaur” reanalyzed as the long-necked herbivore Prosauropod. Fossil footprints found in an Australian coal mine around 50 years ago have long been thought to be that of a large ‘raptor-like’ predatory dinosaur, but scientists have in fact discovered they were instead left by a timid long-necked herbivore. University of Queensland paleontologist Dr. Anthony Romilio recently led an international team to re-analyze...
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The Jon Gruden Dinosaur Hunt
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American Thinker.com ^
| October 13, 2021 | Rick McDowell
Jon Gruden is a dinosaur. The
heretofore Raiders coach is very old school, unrepentant, and of the toxic masculinity persuasion, no less. As was swiftly evidenced, the world today has no place for such creatures. He is another speed bump on the road to a sorry gray future of banal mediocrity called erroneously “equity,” since mere equality falls so, far, far short of what we can stoop to achieve with just a little more force. Gruden was fired when the NFL leaked private emails it discovered in another and totally separate vital investigation into potential political incorrectness -- this one...
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