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Scientists Discover One Of The Oldest Horned Dinosaurs The "new" dinosaur — named Wendiceratops pinhornensis — lived about 79 million years ago and helps scientists understand the early evolution of the family that includes Triceratops.
Monster dinosaur find deserves recognition In the article on the discovery of dinosaurs (They’re back, Review, 6 June) you state: “In Sussex, a local doctor uncovered fragmentary remains of what appeared to be two more species of colossal extinct land reptiles.” You grossly underplay the contribution of Lewes-born Gideon Mantell, geologist and palaeontologist, author and diarist, friend to princes and international scholars as well as local doctor. Mantell not only discovered (aided by his wife) the first remains of the iguanodon in 1824 but named it – as it resembled the tooth of an iguana. This was the first known land dinosaur, Mary Anning having identified the first sea-living dinosaur.Mantell went on to put together more pieces of the jigsaw with extra fossil discoveries. In contrast to Richard Owen, whose models form the basis for the Crystal Palace dinosaurs, Mantell stated correctly that iguanodon would have walked on their back legs, using their forearms to fight or gather food. He did, however, attribute the thumb spike to a nose horn though later corrected this assumption. The Natural History Museum has a display on Gideon and his wife Mary’s contribution as well as the large “Mantell-piece” of Iguanodon fossils that he had on show in his museum in Brighton. He sold it, along with many more priceless items, to the British Museum in 1838. Gideon Mantell’s reputation deserves better than your throwaway remark. Debby MatthewsLewes, East Sussex Continue reading...
Paleontology Source: TheGuardian
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Dinosaur fossils preserve apparent red blood cells, collagen They looked, as one researcher said, like "rubbish," eight seemingly inconsequential Cretaceous Period dinosaur fossils that sat in a London museum's collection for more than a century after being found in Canada's Alberta province.
Paleontology Source: Reuters
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Temperature's rising: expert says dinosaurs were warm-blooded Dinosaurs, those bygone masters of the planet, were warm-blooded just like today's mammals, according to a scientist who judged their metabolism using body mass and growth rates deduced from fossils of species including Tyrannosaurus rex.
Paleontology Source: Reuters
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Paleontology Source: New Scientist
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Ancient parasite 'frozen in time' Researchers discover the 425-million-year-old remains of a new species of parasite - still clamped to the host animal it invaded.
Paleontology Source: BBC News
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Washington state finds first dinosaur fossil, T. rex relative bone SEATTLE (Reuters) - Scientists digging among coastal rocks in Washington state have found the partial left femur of a two-legged carnivorous dinosaur, a fossil believed to be about 80 million years old and the first of its kind found in the state, scientists said on Wednesday.
Paleontology Source: Reuters
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How Bird Beaks Got Their Start As Dinosaur Snouts Hoping to help trace the history of how velociraptors evolved into birds, researchers at Harvard and Yale may have tracked a key beak transformation to two genes.
Paleontology Source: NPR
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How do you tell a boy dinosaur from a girl dinosaur? For extinct creatures like dinosaurs known only from fossils, it is notoriously difficult to differentiate the males from the females of a species because sex distinctions are rarely obvious from the skeletons.
Graveyard clue to stegosaur plates Stegosaurs may have sported quite different shaped bony plates on their backs, depending on whether they were male or female, new research claims.
Paleontology Source: BBC News
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Fossil Fish Sliced Prey With Bizarre Jaws Paleontology collections are wonderful. Shelves and cabinets hold anywhere from thousands to hundreds of millions of years of …
Paleontology Source: National Geographic
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T. Rex cousin was a cannibal New find suggests that the ferocious tyrannosaurs even turned on friends and family
Is It Time To Resurrect The Brontosaurus? More than a century ago, the Brontosaurus was deemed too similar to the dinosaur Apatosaurus. Recent research finds there is enough difference between the two creatures after all.