Paleo discoveries of 2020.

Subject: Paleo discoveries of 2020. Sat Jan 04, 2020 3:27 pm

It's not just a new year for dinosaur discoveries, it's also a new DECADE as well. The 2010's were a remarkable decade for such discoveries, so let's hope that this one is just as good, if not better.

A new Abelisaur found in South America named and described as Tralkasaurus.

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Subject: Re: Paleo discoveries of 2020. Sat Jan 25, 2020 11:00 am

A new speices of Allosaurus, Allosaurus jimmadsen, has been found in Utah.

A new 15.4 foot long Mid-Jurassic megalosaur from China has been named and described as Yunyangosaurus puanensis.

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Subject: Re: Paleo discoveries of 2020. Sat Feb 01, 2020 6:14 pm

New fragmentary Canadian tyrannosaur described as Thanatotheristes degrootorum.

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Subject: Re: Paleo discoveries of 2020. Sat Mar 07, 2020 7:41 pm

It looks like birds diversified quite fast after the non-flying dinosaurs got wiped out.

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Subject: Re: Paleo discoveries of 2020. Fri Mar 13, 2020 2:59 pm

Hummingbird sized dinosaur found in Myanmar/Burma.

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Subject: Re: Paleo discoveries of 2020. Sat Mar 28, 2020 7:19 pm

A new species of raptor found in the Ojo Alamo Formation in New Mexico-in other words, it lived alongside Alamosaurus and T rex-named and described as Dineobellator.

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Subject: Re: Paleo discoveries of 2020. Sat Apr 18, 2020 1:01 pm

Scott Hartman made a new restoration of Triceratops horridus.

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Subject: Re: Paleo discoveries of 2020. Wed Apr 29, 2020 8:15 pm

Big news about the mystery dinosaur known as Spinosaurus.

It looks like Spinosaurus WAS aquatic after all.

It even had a paddle tail.

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Subject: Re: Paleo discoveries of 2020. Fri May 22, 2020 6:25 am

New Cretaceous elahrosaurine found in Australia.

It also looks like dinosaurs were a bit more niche when it came to eating choices then we thought.

New ceratopian found in the Two Medicine Formation, Montana that lived 75 mya named Stellasaurus. It was 20 ft long and was two tons.

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What's interesting about this one is that it probably evolved from Styracosaurus.

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Subject: Re: Paleo discoveries of 2020. Thu Jun 04, 2020 7:37 pm

Here's an interesting article about Utahraptor since it was discovered back in 1991.

Here's another one about the growth of T. rex.

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Subject: Re: Paleo discoveries of 2020. Wed Jun 17, 2020 12:30 pm

Australia had a few big meat eating dinosaurs (at least 33 ft long) after all.

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Subject: Re: Paleo discoveries of 2020. Sat Jul 18, 2020 8:22 pm

New sauropodomorph found in Switzerland named and described as Schleitheimia.

A member of the Alvarezsauridae that lived alongside T. rex and Triceratops offically named and described as Trierarchuncus prairiensis.

A pair of new Late Cretaceous ceratopians named and described as Navajoceratops and Terminocavus.

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Subject: Re: Paleo discoveries of 2020. Wed Jul 29, 2020 7:34 pm

A Japanese paleontology team found 17 eggs belonging to Theriznosaurus.

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Subject: Re: Paleo discoveries of 2020. Fri Jul 31, 2020 1:06 am

Rhedosaurus wrote:: A Japanese paleontology team found 17 eggs belonging to Theriznosaurus.

That's neat! One of my favorites has always been Therizinosaurus. It's such a neat species.

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Subject: Re: Paleo discoveries of 2020. Thu Sep 10, 2020 12:50 pm

New ornithopod found in Liaoning China named and described as Changmiania liaoningensis.

It happens to be one of the most primitive found.

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Subject: Re: Paleo discoveries of 2020. Sat Oct 10, 2020 2:27 pm

Juravenator had a pretty good sense of touch.

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Subject: Re: Paleo discoveries of 2020. Fri Oct 16, 2020 1:12 pm

Baby tyrannosaurs found in Alberta, Canada offically described.

Teenage T. rexes had a bite force equal to that of a full grown hippopotamus.

And we're just talking about teenagers. Adults had FAR more power to them.

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Subject: Re: Paleo discoveries of 2020. Fri Nov 20, 2020 7:54 am

HUGE NEWS!

Dueling dinosaurs 2.0, which contains the only 100% complete T. rex and a Triceratops fighting, has a new home in North Carolina Museum Of Natural Sciences.

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Subject: Re: Paleo discoveries of 2020. Sat Nov 21, 2020 1:35 pm

Happy to hear its going to a museum Smile

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Subject: Re: Paleo discoveries of 2020. Sun Dec 06, 2020 3:44 pm

T. rex and others of its family tree had quick growth spurts compared to all other theropods.

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Subject: Re: Paleo discoveries of 2020. Tue Dec 22, 2020 7:55 am

A skull that came from a 5 meter long crocodile that lived a few million years ago has been named and described as Paludirex vincenti.

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