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The Paleontology Thread

Xelebes

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Great - I've read about Deinocheirus before this discovery, and it's nice to see what was attached to those giant arms. I've heard some theories, but nothing like the real thing!
 

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Cool beast, huh?

I've seen the arms (or a cast of them) in a museum. They're really huge. I'm quite happy they actually found the rest.
 

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This story is a reminder to everybody that what's found in the fossil record is << than what's preserved there, and what's preserved there is << than what existed on Earth at any given point in time. The fossil record is extremely fragmentary, and scientists inevitably will only uncover fragments of that.

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New dinosaur uncovered: The Great Turkey Camelduck (Deinocheirus)

Still waiting for a crocoduck.

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With spinosaurus, and now this chap, this has been a good year for weird-looking dinosaurs.

Popular science publications tend to be too conservative in their depiction of these animals, IMO, with pitiful half-feathered forelimbs and sparse crests. I prefer John Conway's shagpile carpet version.