Abstract: “The Middle Jurassic was a critical time in pterosaur evolution, witnessing the appearance of major morphological innovations that underpinned successive radiations by rhamphorhynchids, basally branching monofenestratans, and pterodactyloids. Frustratingly, this interval is particularly sparsely sampled, with a...
Snippet: “Dinosaurs have quite the reputation for being the largest, fiercest predators in life's history. Yet, 40 million years before dinosaurs ruled, Pampaphoneus biccai dominated South America as the biggest and most bloodthirsty meat eater of its time…....
Paleontologists are still on the hunt for a complete skeleton of one of these herbivorous European dinosaurs that went extinct in two waves.
It's a fourth grade class's dream come true.
Well, it's a mutated Arnold Schwarzenegger riding a dinosaur on the moon with a (dinosaur-)moon in the background! Not sure how effective the headlight is, but I guess it is how it is!...
The creature, dubbed Iani smithi, was identified from a 99-million-year-old fossil