The dinosaur thread

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Apparently, today is officially Dinosaur Day. 

Happy Dinosaur Day. 

It's #DinosaurDay!!!!!! Birds *are* dinosaurs. (Image of a baby blue heron, reddit user Lawrencekhoo) pic.twitter.com/BQjade55rg

— Jan Freedman (@JanFreedman) May 15, 2018

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Where's the mother blue heron, that's what I want to know.

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Sculpting a Spinosaurus with Polymer Clay!

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Mmm dinosaur pasties

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‘Terror Crocodile’ the Size of a Bus Fed on Turkey Dinosaurs, Study Says

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Cryptid Profile: Mokele-mbembe and the “Lost” Dinosaurs of the Congo.

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Scientists have calculated that there were a total of 2.5 billion T-Rexes, with 20,000 alive at any one time, and that they lived to an average age of 28.

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The Day the Dinosaurs Died – Minute by Minute.

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That was great! Especially the bit where the asteroid disappeared into the Earth's shadow.

I was disappointed though that there wasn't a picture of a T Rex looking up at the asteroid as if to say 'That can't be good.'

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It's not a dinosaur but I'm putting it here because it's fossil-related.

https://twitter.com/gunsnrosesgirl3/status/1473330752498589701

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https://twitter.com/rapplerdotcom/status/1473489968785989632

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The baby dinosaur belonged to an oviraptorosaur and should have hatched roughly 70 million years ago in southern China.

Now it's back to claim its BIRTHRIGHT

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Fossil of dinosaur killed in asteroid strike found, scientists claim.

The claim is the Tanis creatures were killed and entombed on the actual day, 66 million years ago, when the reign of the dinosaurs ended and the rise of mammals began.

Very few dinosaur remains have been found in the rocks that record even the final few thousand years before the impact. To have a specimen from the cataclysm itself would be extraordinary.

The BBC has spent three years filming at Tanis for a show to be broadcast on 15 April, narrated by Sir David Attenborough.

There are fish that breathed in impact debris as it rained down from the sky. We see a fossil turtle that was skewered by a wooden stake; the remains of small mammals and the burrows they made; skin from a horned triceratops; the embryo of a flying pterosaur inside its egg; and what appears to be a fragment from the asteroid impactor itself.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-61013740

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