#DINOSAUR DISCOVERY

[retrocgads]

UK 1987

[tiwesdaeg]

It’s kind of weird that I vividly remember The Land Before Time movies depicted Chomper’s parents as loving and caring for him and even having a conversation with him about how he has to kill Little Foot because they (his parents) won’t be around forever and they’re only trying to prepare him for the real difficulties in life, etc

But then only now hearing mainstream dinosaur documentaries saying t-rexes we’re loving parents, but in like a tone that makes it sound like that’s such an unbelievable statement but like….it might be…?

[headlinehorizon]

Jurassic Worlds Beyond Earth: The Search for Prehistoric Life Continues

https://headlinehorizon.com/Science/Dinosaurs/1442

A new study suggests that planets in distant galaxies could hold the key to finding prehistoric life similar to dinosaurs. Discover how researchers are using Earth's past to hunt for signs of life on alien worlds.

[thecoffeeisblack]

Quick sketch based on the new paper on a juvenile Gorgosaurus specimen with the remains of 2 Citipes babies in it's stomach. It's a beautiful specimen of one of my favorite dinosaurs and an important look into the diets of young Tyrannosaurids.

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

Well, we now have evidence of parthenogenesis in birds *and* crocodiles. That forms the phylogenetic bracket around non-avian dinosaurs. Any nonavian - any dinosaur - could have undergone parthenogenesis under the right conditions. We can officially get rid of the frog dna.

[covenawhite66]

An incredibly rare discovery: a complete hadrosaur skeleton.

The fossil is of the large, plant-eating, duck-billed species was found sticking out of a hillside at Dinosaur Provincial Park in Alberta, Canada.

At the moment, all that’s visible of the fossil is a portion of the dinosaur’s tail and right hind leg, but researchers Brian Pickles of the University of Reading and Caleb Brown from the Royal Tyrrell Museum explained that the way in which the fossil is arranged suggests the skeleton is in a sitting position — and may be fully preserved within the hill.

According to Brown, roughly 400 to 500 dinosaur bones have been excavated from the area — but finding any fossils with skin is quite rare. Even rarer is finding a dinosaur preserved in the same position as they were in life.

[wayward-delver]

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Does anyone remember Dragons: A Fantasy Made Real? That documentary where a T-rex fights a dragon and convinced an entire generation of kids that Dragons were real.

(Unless you count Yi Qi as a dragon)

[littlepawz]

Discovered in a mine in Alberta, Canada in 2011, a fossil of a nodosaur dinosaur is one of the most well-preserved fossils of its kind, down to its skin, scales and even the contents of its stomach. These heavily-armored herbivores walked the Earth between the Late Jurassic and Late Cretaceous periods, with this particular specimen dating back 110 million years. 

Considered one of the major archeological finds from the last decade, the nodosaur is currently on display at the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Alberta, Canada

[infodumpingaboutnature]

So a new species of dinosaur was just discovered and uh……. They named it Gremlin. Gremlin slobodorum…….

So Gremilin slobodorum is a species of leptoceratopsid ceratopsian dinosaur that lived during the Campanian stage of the Cretaceous period around 77 million years ago. Its fragmentary remains were first found in the Oldman Formation in Alberta, Canada and were originally thought to have belonged to a different genus of small ceratopsian called Cerasinops since their remains have been found in rock layers around that same age.

(Cerasinops compared to a modern house cat. Art by cisiopurple on Deviantart)

However, it was just recently discovered to be a completely new genus and so it was given the name: Gremlin slobodorum. The genus name “Gremlin” obviously refers to the mischievous mythical creature while the species name “slobodorum” is in honor of Ed and Wendy Sloboda who were both involved in the discovery of the holotype specimen.

If I’m being honest I don’t really like the genus name of this dinosaur. Like I’m all for extinct creatures having names inspired by mythology but just calling it Gremlin feels lazy in my opinion. Like it does look like a Gremlin but maybe Gremlinsaurus or Gremlinceratops would’ve been better names. But despite its uncreative (in my opinion) name I still think it’s a pretty cool dinosaur and can’t wait for more paleo art of this guy to start popping up. Also, no hate to the people who named this genus or if you like the name. I just wish it wasn’t just called Gremlin. Who knows maybe the name will grow on me.

[in-tenebris-et-in-solitudine]

[smol-soft-stuffie]

[retrocgads]

UK 1987

[raurquiz]

#happybirthday @ianaIexander #ianalexander #actor #graytal #StarTrekDiscovery #thelastofus #part2 #theoa #everyday #dejavu #TheBlanksYPF #daughter #MoonGirlandDevilDinosaur #startrek57 @TrekMovie @TrekCore @StarTrek @StarTrekOnPPlus

[thedepressexpress]

the fucking plot twist in animal documentaries when the animal is a mom >>>>>>

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

An open letter from Amelia Zietlow and other former and current students and volunteers supporting the Carthage Institute of Paleontology in their time of hardship. Please read and share:

[moth-mart]

do you have like a chart of god's moral compass /hj but her morals are so interesting to me. deposes god the prequel to try to fix some stuff and then demonifies a random mortal for fun

YEAH. Her morals are so. Yes <3

On some level she's able to perceive and take issue with injustices [the whole heaven system she wanted to demolish] and can conceptualize that mistreatment in order to view it as 'wrong'. In that sense.

But also As A God she lacks what most would consider standard morals towards those with less power than her and struggles with humanizing them? Struggle not even being the right word for it 'cause she generally does not see it as a problem. She can understand their pain but looks at it more like someone would an injured or pitiful animal like. 'that poor deer is stuck in a fence. what a sorry thing' but the problem is the 'deer' in question is a whole person.