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Germany · GermanyLocomotion in the Sauropoda is hotly debated by palaeontologists. Some of these leviathans grew to enormous sizes. Once thought to have been semi-aquatic, scientists have a better understanding of their anatomy, and most academics concur that these reptiles were well-adapted to a terrestrial existence. How these animals moved their enormous bulk has been the subject of numerous scientific papers. In a new study, researchers have examined the c…Read Article
New Giraffatitan brancai Tail Movement Study
Species · Baden-WürttembergA new species of Early Jurassic plesiosaur has been named based on a detailed examination of an almost complete fossil specimen discovered nearly fifty years ago. The articulated specimen represents a skeletally immature individual, and it has been named Plesionectes longicollum. Writing in the open-access journal PeerJ, the researchers identified several unique anatomical features of the fossil that permitted the erection of a new taxon. For …Read Article
Plesionectes longicollum - A Remarkable Plesiosaur
Dinosaur Fossils · FranceOur thanks to Dr Lukasz Czepiński (Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences) for helping Everything Dinosaur. We had written a blog post about the scientific description of a new taxon of European rhabdodontomorph. It had been published a few days ago. This dinosaur has been named Obelignathus septimanicus and we contacted one of the authors of the study to request an image showing the Obelignathus septimanicus fossils. A few days…Read Article
