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Paleontologist SciCommer. Everything from Mothman to T. rex to Godzilla, you want it, I got you covered.
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FOX 29 reports the New York City sale made it the second-most expensive set of dinosaur bones ever sold.
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A paleontology post says the partially complete skeleton came from the Lower Cretaceous Weald Clay Formation at Smokejacks Brickworks.
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Nature reports two armoured amphibian fossils from a region of China that was a salty sea in the Late Triassic.
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A new large megapode species, M. rokski, identified from Pleistocene fossils found in Flores, adds to recent paleontological discoveries of extinct bird diversity.
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A post says the species was described from tiny bones; its salamander-shaped group was not closely related to living salamanders.
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A post sharing a new study identifies the ray as Tetronarce ramanamurthyi.
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A post says the find comes from India's Triassic Tiki Formation, but only a jaw tip is available.
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A post describes a moderately complete skeleton from Italy's Norian-aged Dolomia di Forni Formation.
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A post describes a high school student's paper using quick calculations and credits the accompanying art to plioart.
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A post identifies the Cretaceous specimen as Folimantis and says its abdominal projections resemble Selaginella grimaldii leaves.
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New Scientist describes the ground-dwelling carnivore's wing anatomy as similar to a pheasant's.
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A science post describes Edmontosaurus tail vertebrae with bite marks at different angles and concentrations.
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A post describes the turkey-sized dinosaur's short, blunt skull and apparent jaw adaptations for possible fruit-eating.
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A science account says calculations and bone-based muscle reconstructions led researchers to infer the lunges.
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One post calls the 5-centimeter insect gigantic for its group; another says the crocodilian was previously classified as Tomistoma.
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A post citing the study says the Alberta specimen combines traits associated with two tyrannosaur subgroups.
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A science post identifies the bone as an enantiornithine bird’s tibiotarsus and calls it Australia’s second known Cretaceous bird.
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NatSciChannel says the newly described microraptorine comes from the Jiufotang Formation in Liaoning, China. It notes that the accompanying illustration shows Zhongjianosaurus, not Norellraptor.
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NatSciChannel highlights a paper that uses different analytical approaches to reconstruct extinct archosaurs’ oral tissues, with Camarasaurus as a model.
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NatSciChannel describes the newly named fossil animal as looking like “a feather duster stuck in an ice cream cone.”
