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Here we appreciate only the best of dinosaurs.
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This Facebook sticker set is called Downer Dinos and I’m convinced whoever thought this up consulted 15-year-old me.

This is my favorite sticker set, but you forgot the best one:

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SO GOOD

I have never downloaded anything so fast

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PalaeoVerse News from the World of News | Special May Compendium (1) - Dinosaurs!

In this post we’ll be taking a look at some of the significant discoveries involving dinosaurs that took place over the last month.

  • Archaeornithura meemannae is the oldest ornithuromorph - or a member of the birds that are closest related to modern birds - from the Early Cretaceous of China. It appears to have been a wader, much like other members of its group, the hongshanornithids. The discovery of Archaeornithura pushes back the origin of the ornithuromorphs by five or six million years, and also tells us that modern bird lineages started to diverge much earlier than we thought. The open-access Nature Communications paper is here.
  • You may recall the paper from last year that proposed dinosaurs were mesotherms, meaning that they were intermediate between cold-blooded reptiles and warm-blooded birds in their metabolism. Michael D’Emic has responded to this study by pointing out that the authors probably scaled the growth rates of dinosaurs incorrectly, among other errors, and that dinosaurs may actually have been much more like the warm-blooded birds and mammals of today than we previously thought. The comment in Science can be found here.
  • Sexual dimorphism has been a popular yet controversial topic in paleozoology lately - several months ago, Saitta proposed a dubious theory that Hesperosaurus mjosi was dimorphic. Maiorino et al. examined the anatomical features of different skulls of Protoceratops andrewsi, and found that there was little difference between male and female skulls. All differences were attributable to regular anatomical variation. No dimorphism there. The PLOS ONE open access paper is here.
  • The left femur of a theropod was recovered from the Cedar District Formation in Washington, becoming the first dinosaur discovered in this state. There is not enough material to describe the remains as a distinct taxonomic unit, but the owner of the bone appears to be a member of the tyrannosauroids. If it is indeed a tyrannosauroid, it would imply that large size in this group appeared earlier than previously thought. You can find the PLOS ONE paper here.
  • A nest of the oviraptorosaur Heyuannia has been discovered in China, complete with a clutch of eggs that, surprisingly, were blue-green in color, unlike the drab beige and white eggs that dinosaurs are typically depicted having. This is similar to the eggs of modern birds, which are similarly colored as a form of disguise or camoflauge from predators. The porosity of the shells also tells us that the eggs were laid in an open nest. The PeerJ pre-print is located here.
  • Three new sauropods have been discovered in Chile - a diplodocine, a titanosauriform, and an as-yet unidentified species. The remains aren’t very extensive, although the diplodocine is the oldest of its kind in South America. This will help us understand the early evolution of South American sauropods in a land that would eventually be dominated by this clade, producing some of the largest and most spectacular sauropods. Of note, all of these were coeval with Chilesaurus, the weird herbivorous tetanuran from earlier this year. The paper can be found here.
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There is a brilliant dinosaur called the “Australovenator”.

I don’t know who the hell named that thing, but I can guess.

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The Palaeoplushies shop now offers gift wrapping for larger items! The gift wrap is custom made, in a choice of two colours.

Velociraptor Pin Badges are now available, with the orange colour scheme in both nickel and gold plated, or new in blue! 

http://www.palaeoplushies.com/

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If humans one day become extinct from a catastrophic collision, there would be no greater tragedy in the history of life in the universe. Not because we lacked the brain power to protect ourselves but because we lacked the foresight. The dominant species that replaces us in post-apocalyptic Earth just might wonder, as they gaze upon our mounted skeletons in their natural history museums, why large-headed Homo sapiens fared no better than the proverbially pea-brained dinosaurs.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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Rex regrets trying to get from place to place extra fast on a Monday.

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