Paleo Discoveries of 2016

Subject: Paleo Discoveries of 2016 Tue Jun 07, 2016 5:37 pm

All of the exciting new finds for this year! Come see what's new in the realm of the extremely old.

Subject: Re: Paleo Discoveries of 2016 Tue Jun 07, 2016 8:48 pm

Early Mammals Began Their Diversification Long Before Demise of Dinosaurs

Subject: Re: Paleo Discoveries of 2016 Tue Jun 07, 2016 10:00 pm

Weird stem-arthropod had babies attached on little threads, genus name literally means "kite runner."

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Subject: Re: Paleo Discoveries of 2016 Wed Jun 22, 2016 5:31 pm

This talks about how early mammals evolved with night vision to escape being food for small meat-eating dinosaurs.

This one talks about how humans and climate change wiped out the big ice age mammals.

Subject: Re: Paleo Discoveries of 2016 Tue Jun 28, 2016 1:48 pm

Rare Dinosaur-Era Bird Wings Found Trapped in Amber

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Subject: Re: Paleo Discoveries of 2016 Sat Jul 02, 2016 6:22 pm

Leonardo, the mummified Brachylophosaurus, had been infected with parasitic worms.

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Subject: Re: Paleo Discoveries of 2016 Wed Jul 06, 2016 6:40 am

The first known fossilized non-cancerous tumor is found on a Telmatosaurus jaw.

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Subject: Re: Paleo Discoveries of 2016 Wed Jul 13, 2016 1:26 pm

Not sure if this was posted on JPL, but it won't hurt if I post it here. T. rex was descended from an Asian migrant, most likely from China. Tarbosaurus and Zhuchengtyrannus are mentioned, which makes sense because they are very closely related.

Also, another ceratopian found. This time in the badlands of Alberta.

Subject: Re: Paleo Discoveries of 2016 Thu Jul 14, 2016 9:10 am

Gualicho - new argentinian theropod with "t.rex arms"

It was closely related to Deltadromeus.

Subject: Re: Paleo Discoveries of 2016 Wed Jul 27, 2016 6:25 pm

Murusraptor, a megaraptor (and thus possible tyrannosaur) described from the Sierra Barrosa Formation. 90 million years old.

80 mya footprint found in Bolivia. It's size shows that it was made by a theropod that was T. rex size.

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Subject: Re: Paleo Discoveries of 2016 Wed Aug 03, 2016 5:38 pm

A Hadrosaurus specimen was found with septic arthritis. Nasty.

Dinosaurs saw shades of red and had red colorings on their bodies.

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Subject: Re: Paleo Discoveries of 2016 Fri Aug 19, 2016 4:56 pm

A new T. rex fossil has been found in Montana. It's 20% complete and has a very complete skull.

It's currently as the Burke Museum at Seattle, Washington and the skull is 4 ft long and a 2,500 pounds. It's being refered to as the Tutfs-Loves Tyrannosaur after the people who found it.

Also, DNA extracted from Cave Lion remains proves that it was its own species.

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Subject: Re: Paleo Discoveries of 2016 Sat Aug 20, 2016 12:10 pm

The Marsupial Lion used it's teeth to hold it's prey and used its claws to finish it off.

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Subject: Re: Paleo Discoveries of 2016 Wed Aug 24, 2016 5:40 pm

MOR is digging out a Triceratops named Ski Makoshika that was found in Dec 2014.

From what it says, this one's a pretty big one too.

Subject: Re: Paleo Discoveries of 2016 Sat Aug 27, 2016 2:59 pm

A new titanosaur from Brazil has been named Sousatitan.

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Subject: Re: Paleo Discoveries of 2016 Mon Aug 29, 2016 6:09 pm

We may have just found a tiny, piscivorous, semi-aquatic ankylosaur. Yes, really.

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Subject: Re: Paleo Discoveries of 2016 Mon Aug 29, 2016 6:30 pm

Crimsonraptor wrote:: We may have just found a tiny, piscivorous, semi-aquatic ankylosaur. Yes, really.

It sounds and looks like a miniature Angurius.

Subject: Re: Paleo Discoveries of 2016 Tue Aug 30, 2016 10:26 pm

The German "Monster of Minden" has finally been described as a megalosaurid - and it's one of the largest theropods yet known from Europe.

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Subject: Re: Paleo Discoveries of 2016 Wed Sep 07, 2016 4:36 pm

Early Cretaceous (130 mya) dinosaur footprints found on a beach in West Australia.

Pycnonemosaurus is now the largest Abelisaur to have been discovered.

Subject: Re: Paleo Discoveries of 2016 Fri Sep 09, 2016 6:55 pm

A 212 mya relative to crocodiles that was found in New Mexico back in 2009 in finally named Vivaron haydeni.

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Subject: Re: Paleo Discoveries of 2016 Wed Sep 14, 2016 5:42 pm

Scientists revel the most accurate reconstruction of a dinosaur, in this case Psittacosaurus, ever made.

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An ornithomimid once classified as Struthiomimus altus is given its own genus- Rativates evadens.

https://www.cmnh.org/rativates

Subject: Re: Paleo Discoveries of 2016 Wed Sep 28, 2016 6:07 pm

Theropods with horns, hornlets, crests, nasal bumps, and/or other oranaments grew 20 times larger then those without it.

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Subject: Re: Paleo Discoveries of 2016 Thu Sep 29, 2016 4:14 pm

Rhedosaurus wrote:: Theropods with horns, hornlets, crests, nasal bumps, and/or other oranaments grew 20 times larger then those without it.

So, in essence we could expect that in addition to retaining a thick covering of feathers, T. rex might have had bony ridges and knobs on it's snout? I always like it when we find little nuggets of information like this, it makes the animals more alive in my eyes.

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Subject: Re: Paleo Discoveries of 2016 Thu Sep 29, 2016 6:09 pm

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Rhedosaurus wrote:: Theropods with horns, hornlets, crests, nasal bumps, and/or other oranaments grew 20 times larger then those without it.

So, in essence we could expect that in addition to retaining a thick covering of feathers, T. rex might have had bony ridges and knobs on it's snout? I always like it when we find little nuggets of information like this, it makes the animals more alive in my eyes.

It's actually been known that T. rex had hornlets above the eyes and nasal bumps for some time now. I think that one of the ways to identify male and female T. rexes is that the females had larger hornlets then the males, but to the best of my knowledge, I'm not sure if this is considered reliable.

Subject: Re: Paleo Discoveries of 2016 Sat Oct 01, 2016 12:34 pm

90-70 million year old titanosaur footprint found in the Gobi Desert, Mongolia.

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Subject: Re: Paleo Discoveries of 2016 Wed Oct 05, 2016 3:10 pm

20 mya old teeth belong to a new speices of shark, the 13 foot long Megalolamna paradoxodon. So far, it's considered a relative of Megalodon.

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Subject: Re: Paleo Discoveries of 2016 Fri Oct 07, 2016 7:01 am

Brazil now a new titanosaur the size of Paratitan, Austroposeidon magnificus.

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Subject: Re: Paleo Discoveries of 2016 Wed Oct 12, 2016 5:37 pm

Non avian dinosaurs may have been able to honk.

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Rhedosaurus wrote:: I think that one of the ways to identify male and female T. rexes is that the females had larger hornlets then the males, but to the best of my knowledge, I'm not sure if this is considered reliable.

It's not, it's pretty much a fabrication. A baseless claim made out of nowhere.

There is currently no way to identify the sex of a Tyrannosaurus specimen aside from checking for medullary tissue if it's present.

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