New fossil find - tyrannosaur 10 million years older than previously known species. http://www.theguardian.com/science/...tyrannosaurus-rex-lythronax-argestes-dinosaur
ThunderWeasel said:Bit of a threadjack here, but as I started the thread...
mutantdonut said:I keep hearing rumors of another Jurassic Park movie. Is it going to happen?
Sereph_Doll said:Little background about me-
I'm an Anthropology Major and I've taken some Paleo classes that were simply awesome so this thread is flipping awesome to me.
Also-
I love whales. Baleen whales to be exact (Humpbacks woot woot) I have always loved whales and I cannot wait until the day I get to see one. Going to cry... A LOT when that happens. ANYWHO...
In February (I think ??) of this year 4 new species were found to be the ancestors of baleen whales! How awesome is that. So by proxy they are my favorite of the "dino" class. I need to find out more on these discoveries and see if I can read the reports on them because this gives me a lady boner so hard.
Reading for you about them.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news ... eontology/
bakersman said:Sereph,
Here is a great blogpost about whale evolution, with links to some very good in-depth articles. It's very cool how much is known about just how it all happened, and in some ways I can't believe how fast it was, that is, about 10 million years from a land animal that looks like a hyena to a real whale-looking whale.
https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpres...c-popular-article-on-the-evolution-of-whales/
ThunderWeasel said:Mine's Deinonychus antirrhopus. It's a member of the dromaeosaur family of dinosaurs. If you saw Jurassic Park, the animal they were calling "Velociraptor" was actually a Deinonychus. Velociraptors were much smaller, about wolf size. Also, dromaeosaurs couldn't have opened doors the way the movie creatures did. Their wrists didn't bend that way. Their arms folded like a bird's wing, which has led to much debate over whether dromaeosaurs gave rise to birds, or if they were in fact a type of bird that had lost the flight ability, in much the same fashion as a modern ostrich or the "terror birds" of prehistoric North and South America.