US EditionA crushed fossil revealed a dinosaur that shouldn’t have existed
Using CT scans and 3D printing, a Virginia Tech student identified the crushed fossil as a previously unknown meat-eating dinosaur species.
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A crushed fossil revealed a dinosaur that shouldn’t have existed
A badly mangled dinosaur skull, once forgotten in a drawer, turned out to be a rare and important discovery. Reconstructed by a Virginia Tech student, it revealed a new species of early carnivorous dinosaur with unusual features never seen before. The fossil suggests some dinosaur groups were wiped out during the end-Triassic extinction, not just their rivals. It may represent one of the last survivors of an ancient dinosaur lineage.
Student discovers new carnivore dinosaur 3x older than T. rex
“You want to stick your finger in a dinosaur brain?” That was Simba Srivastava’s first reaction to the battered fossil sitting in a paleobiology lab at Virginia Tech, a skull so crushed and twisted that he described it in less-than-flattering terms. “This is a uniquely sucky specimen,” he said. “It’s so bad. Like, if you saw a human skull in this way, you’d throw up.” And yet that same fossil, pulled from a drawer decades after it was unearthed …
DAILY DOSE: Crushed Skull Reveals Last Stand of an Early Meat-Eater; A Soft Sponge Helps Fill Darwin’s Missing Fossil Gap.
Crushed Skull Reveals Last Stand of an Early Meat-Eater: A battered skull from New Mexico’s Ghost Ranch has turned out to be a new early carnivorous dinosaur, Ptychotherates bucculentus. The specimen, reconstructed by Virginia Tech undergraduate Simba Srivastava, belonged to Herrerasauria, one of the earliest meat-eating dinosaur lineages. Its late Triassic age matters: the fossil may show that some dinosaur groups were not simply beneficiaries …
A crushed fossil, previously overlooked, has revealed a new species of carnivorous dinosaur that challenges current understanding of the evolution of these animals. The discovery, made by a Virginia Tech student, suggests that some dinosaur lineages may have become extinct during the end-Triassic extinction event. Discovery of a Rare Fossil The fossil, initially found in 1982 at Ghost Ranch, New Mexico, was rediscovered decades later in a drawer…
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