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Diversity, 2021 The Late Triassic (Norian) outcrops of the Malmros Klint Formation, Jameson Land (Greenland) have yielded numerous specimens of non-sauropod sauropodomorphs.
Victor Beccari +4 more
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New records of theropods from the latest Cretaceous of New Jersey and the Maastrichtian Appalachian fauna [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2019 The faunal changes that occurred in the few million years before the Cretaceous–Palaeogene extinction are of much interest to vertebrate palaeontologists. Western North America preserves arguably the best fossil record from this time, whereas terrestrial
Chase Doran Brownstein
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High-Latitude Dinosaur Nesting Strategies during the Latest Cretaceous in North-Eastern Russia
Diversity, 2023 Dinosaur eggshell fragments attributed to the oofamilies Spheroolithidae and Prismatoolithidae and recovered from the latest Cretaceous Kakanaut Formation of North-eastern Russia (Chukotka) constitute one of the northernmost records of dinosaur ...
Romain Amiot +8 more
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In this classroom activity, middle school students explore the Greek and Latin root words used to create dinosaur names. The activity opens with background information about how dinosaurs are named.
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A Preliminary Study on the Siphon Mechanism in Giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis)
Animals, 2022 Adult giraffes reach heights of 4.5 m with a heart-to-head distance of over 2 m, making cranial blood supply challenging. Ultrasound confirmed that the giraffe jugular vein collapses during head movement from ground level to fully erect, negating the ...
Marna Suzanne van der Walt +4 more
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Limb-Bone Scaling Indicates Diverse Stance and Gait in Quadrupedal Ornithischian Dinosaurs [PDF]
, 2012 Background The most primitive ornithischian dinosaurs were small bipeds, but quadrupedality evolved three times independently in the clade. The transition to quadrupedality from bipedal ancestors is rare in the history of terrestrial vertebrate ...
Barrett, PM +3 more
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The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract With the development of dental microwear texture analysis (DMTA), there has been an increasing application of DMTA for dietary estimation in extant and fossil reptiles, including dinosaurs. While numerous feeding experiments exist for herbivorous mammals, knowledge remains limited for carnivorous reptiles. This study aimed to qualitatively and
K. Usami, M. O. Kubo
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Cretaceous dinosaur tracks in the Brenton Formation, Western Cape
South African Journal of ScienceDinosaur tracks, probably aged ~132 Ma, have been identified in South Africa’s Western Cape Province, where they occur within the Brenton Formation of the Cretaceous Uitenhage Group.
Charles W. Helm +3 more
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Tracking dinosaurs in Scotland [PDF]
, 2005 <p>Dinosaurs, the Loch Ness Monster not included, are a rarity in Scotland. Although dinosaurs have been known of in England and elsewhere in the world for over 300 years, it was only in the last 23 years that dinosaurs began to appear in Scotland.
Clark, N.D.L.
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The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract A subadult Moschognathus whaitsi from the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa, was scanned using synchrotron radiation X‐ray computed tomography (SRXCT). Its subadult state allowed the cranial bones and teeth to be identified and individually reconstructed in 3D.
Tristen Lafferty +3 more
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