#latecretaceous — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #latecretaceous, aggregated by home.social.
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“One must suffer to be beautiful,” says an old adage. Bateman and Larsson find that the same held true for pachycephalosaurs, who traded feeding performance for a cranial dome.
Available now ahead of print!
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𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔'𝗦 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗟𝗘
✧ Atrociraptor ✧
Atrociraptor is a genus of dromaeosaurid dinosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous in what is now Alberta, Canada. The first specimen was discovered in 1995 by the fossil collector Wayne Marshall in the Horseshoe Canyon Formation. In 2004, this became the holotype of the new genus and species Atrociraptor marshalli; the gene...
#LateCretaceous #HorseshoeCanyonFormation #Canada #Alberta #Wikipedia
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27-JUN-2024
#Ammonites went out with a diverse bang—and not a long, slow fizzle—in the #LateCretaceous
A new study used museum collections to map ammonite diversity around the globe before their total #extinction and found they were not in decline prior to their extinction alongside non-avian dinosaurs 66 million years agohttps://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1049643 #science #evolution
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Any paleo bird artists on here? #paleoart #bird #lateCretaceous
