#degrootorum

[interretialia]

Formatio Verborum Latinorum / Formation of Latin Words

ὁ Θανατοθερίστης -ου / Thanatotheristes -ae m. “Thanatotheristes,” “Death-Reaper”   [θάνατος “death” + θεριστής “reaper”]   [θανατο- + θεριστα-] stems   [θανατο- + θεριστα-] with Connecting Vowel ο   [Θανατοθεριστα-] new stem   [Θανατοθερίστης] nominative singular   [Thanatotheristes] Θανατοθερίστης Latinized

degrootorum “of the De Groots”   [De Groot “De Groot” + -us Latinizing suffix]   [De Groot + -ο-] stems   [degrootο-] new stem   [degrootus] nominative singular   [degrootorum] genitive plural

(Fons Imaginis.)

[iknowdino]

Episode 273: The "Reaper of death" Thanatotheristes

I Know Dino #Podcast Episode 273: The new tyrannosaur Thanatotheristes, the "Reaper of death." Plus some brand new dinosaur fossils from the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show.

Episode 273 is all about Ekrixinatosaurus, the “explosion born” abelisaurid from Argentina.

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[amberfossils]

Thinking about ✨them ✨💖💕💝💞

[radicalestes]

Thanatotheristes - a newly described tyrannosaurid from the foremost formation (approx. an hour from where I live!) I had to draw the new friend, and it evolved into how to tyrannosaur faces and drawing stripey boys...

[allosuchus]

“We are thrilled to announce the first new species of tyrannosaur to be discovered in Canada in 50 years,” said Dr. François Therrien, curator of dinosaur paleoecology at the Royal Tyrrell Museum.

“The last tyrannosaur described from Canada was Daspletosaurus in 1970.”

[corvid-420]

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“One like=one prayer, reblogs cast, ignore for american supremacy”

Uh oh fandom tumblr found the post...dumbass political takes inbound

i have to admit: the reblogs-to-dumbassery ratio is surprisingly low for the reach it’s gotten so far, like literally the ones i’ve posted (plus some weirdo christian, which is like the ur-fandom tbh)

but they’re incoming but i’ll be busy streaming in a couple hours from twitch.tv/BotnikStrategies, I’m 27 away from 50 to become an affiliate!

[moszeuchreets]

Thanatotheristes degrootorum

As I have been notified about this twice now, I thought I might cover Thanatotheristes degrootorum for today's extinct animal of the day. This dinosaur was first discovered in Canada in 2010 by John and Sandra De Groot. But it was in 2018 that Jared Voris decided to try and identify the animal more thoroughly with his team. It was two years later, likely earlier this year, that they have given the dinosaur the name, Reaper of Death (an amazing name!) It's really cool to hear that Canada has its own Tyrannosaur, even if it is smaller than the T-Rex.

For more information, please check out this National Geographic page: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/…/new-reaper-of-death-…/…

Image from this website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-51457790

[netmassimo]

An article published in the journal "Cretaceous Research" reports the identification of a new species of tyrannosaurid that lived in today's Canada about 80 million years ago, in the Cretaceous period. A team of researchers named it Thanatotheristes degrootorum after examining a partial skull with the bones of the upper and lower jaws, discovered in 2010 near the city of Hays. The characteristics of the available fossils convinced the researchers that it was a tyrannosaurid of a different species from the ones already known, the oldest discovered in Canada, useful to understand the evolution of the family to which the iconic T. rex belongs.

[crayonmilkz]

New dinosaur found in Canada! A T-Rex cousin, named Reaper of Death (Thanatotheristes degrootorum)

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[melodywanderer]

[sciencespies]

T. rex wasn't always at the top of the food chain. Meet what came before

https://sciencespies.com/nature/t-rex-wasnt-always-at-the-top-of-the-food-chain-meet-what-came-before/

T. rex wasn't always at the top of the food chain. Meet what came before

About 90 million years ago, a gigantic apex predator – a meat-eating dinosaur with serrated shark-like teeth – prowled what is now Uzbekistan, according to a new study of the behemoth’s jawbone.

The 26-foot-long (8 meters) beast weighed 2,200 pounds (1,000 kilograms), making it longer than an African elephant and heavier than a bison.

Researchers named it Ulughbegsaurus uzbekistanensis, after Ulugh Beg, a 15th-century astronomer, mathematician, and sultan from what is now Uzbekistan.

What caught scientists by surprise was that the dinosaur was much larger – twice the length and more than five times heavier – than its ecosystem’s previously known apex predator: a tyrannosaur, the researchers found.

Related: The 10 coolest dinosaur findings of 2020 

The chunk of jawbone was found in Uzbekistan’s Kyzylkum Desert in the 1980s, and researchers rediscovered it in 2019 in an Uzbekistan museum collection.

(Julius Csotonyi)

Above: An illustration of the enormous carcharodontosaur Ulughbegsaurus with the smaller tyrannosaur Timurlengia.

The partial jawbone of U. uzbekistanensis is enough to suggest that the animal was a carcharodontosaur, or a “shark-toothed” dinosaur. These carnivores were cousins and competitors of tyrannosaurs, whose most famous species is Tyrannosaurus rex.

The two dinosaur groups were fairly similar, but carcharodontosaurs were generally more slender and lightly built than the heavyset tyrannosaurs, said study co-researcher Darla Zelenitsky, an associate professor of paleobiology at the University of Calgary.

Even so, carcharodontosaurs were usually larger than tyrannosaur dinosaurs, reaching weights greater than 13,200 pounds (6,000 kg). Then, around 90 million to 80 million years ago, the carcharodontosaurs disappeared and the tyrannosaurs grew in size, taking over as apex predators in Asia and North America.

The new finding is the first carcharodontosaur dinosaur discovered in Central Asia, the researchers noted.

Paleontologists already knew that the tyrannosaur Timurlengia lived at the same time and place, but at 13 feet (4 m) in length and about 375 pounds (170 kg) in weight, Timurlengia was several times smaller than U. uzbekistanensis, suggesting that U. uzbekistanensis was the apex predator in that ecosystem, gobbling up horned dinosaurs, long-necked sauropods and ostrich-like dinosaurs in the neighborhood, the team said. 

(Dinosaur Valley Studios)

Above: A reconstruction of Ulughbegsaurus’s upper jaw and teeth.

“Our discovery indicates carcharodontosaurs were still dominant predators in Asia 90 million years ago,” study lead researcher Kohei Tanaka, an assistant professor at the Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences at the University of Tsukuba in Japan, told Live Science in an email.

Peter Makovicky, a professor of paleontology at the University of Minnesota who was not involved in the study, agreed that U. uzbekistanensis was likely at the top of the local food chain.

“I think this bone is so big that this would have been a very large predatory dinosaur and very likely the apex predator in its ecosystem,” Makovicky told Live Science. 

The U. uzbekistanensis finding is the last known occurrence of a carcharodontosaur and a tyrannosaur living together before the carcharodontosaurs went extinct, the team said.

The team found that U. uzbekistanensis has unique bony bumps above its teeth. However, it also has bony ridges on the sides of its jaw that were similar to the 79.5 million-year-old tyrannosaur Thanatotheristes degrootorum (whose name means “reaper of death“) from what is now Canada.

It’s unclear why both species have these ridges, but perhaps it’s a case of convergent evolution, when species that aren’t closely related evolve to have similar characteristics, Zelenitsky said.

The study was published online Wednesday (Sept. 8) in the journal Royal Society Open Science.

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[shattered-catalyst]

"You have no idea what it takes to get here and to stay here."

Snowbird is in his arms as a beaver, large tail smacking against his legs as she threatens to transform into something less adorable now that Shaw is around. " That is a ridiculous statement Shaw, I know exactly what it takes to get here: $8.30 bus faire if I choose to take the bus." Sliding Narya onto the ground buys them some time as she transforms into something more menacing. Good thing she had given him the Encyclapedia on Canadian Wildlife Past and Present!

Thanatotheristes degrootorum. Her jaws lunged forward and Catalyst side stepped the attack with ease. "I know you do not care but: Thanatotheristes degrootorum, a species of tyrannosaur. Its name means death reaper- maybe that should be the name of your next offspring should you have the misfortune of being in close proximity for the birth."

Her tail sprays shards of stained glass from the luxurious windows around them as she rears for another charge at the two. Neither are going to be concerned about a dinosaur, lets face it this is just another thursday for them.

"For the record Shaw; I do not care what it took you to get here as you do not care what it took for me to get here. So shut the fekt up and fight the Thanatotheristes or leave so I may pet the Thantotheristes."

[stemmmm]

I saw the “reaper of death” aka  Thanatotheristes degrootorum trending on twitter while watching @miikpal play hades so i made them a thanatos rex

now you all can enjoy him as well

[dinophilevn]

10 khám phá hay ho nhất về khủng long (part 5): Người họ hàng mang tên "Thần chết" của T. rex

Tyrannosaurus có một họ hàng vừa được tìm thấy và sở hữu một cái tên đáng sợ – “thần chết”, đến từ nơi ngày nay là tỉnh Alberta, Canada. Con quái vật có niên đại 75 triệu năm này (Thanatotheristes degrootorum, được đặt theo tên thần chết Thanatos trong thần thoại Hy Lạp) là loài cổ nhất được xếp vào họ khủng long bạo chúa được ghi nhận tại Bắc Mỹ.

Nó cũng là loài thuộc họ khủng long bạo chúa được định danh mới đầu tiên tại Canada trong 50 năm (Chúc mừng đầu cầu Canada!). “Chắc chắn đây là một con vật khá hoành tráng, có hông cao gần 2,4 mét,” Jared Voris, một nghiên cứu sinh tiến sĩ ngành cổ sinh vật học tại Đại học Calgary ở Alberta và là trưởng nhóm của nghiên cứu trên nói với Live Science vào tháng Hai năm 2020.

Gã “thần chết” này có những đường gờ thẳng đứng đặc biệt chạy dọc từ mắt đến chóp mũi trên. Các nhà khoa học không biết tại sao các loài ăn thịt lại có những đường gờ như vậy, nhưng nếu bạn là con mồi của nó, đó có thể là thứ cuối cùng bạn thấy trước khi bị con vật này ăn tươi nuốt sống.

Tranh minh họa của Julius Csotonyi.

Xem thêm tại đây.

[corvid-420]

thanatotheristes-degrootorum replied to your post “i’m blocking anyone reblogging from anarcblr, it was bad enough i kept...”

I had to scroll through SO MUCH to see what you were talking about

trouble is i just hold my nose and peek in here to see what inane bullshit washes up on my dash and sometimes i’m blocked so i can’t needle them myself lmao

and ever since i was called a fascist for reading machiavelli i’ve noticed an uptick in random blogs that claim to be marxist/leftist/anticapitalist/antiimperialist and have me blocked.

anyway, i hate americans.