Tag: sauropod
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New dinosaur species reconstructed for display in Los Angeles
ABC News has a video of a new dinosaur display being constructed in Los Angeles. Nicknamed “Gnatalie”, it’s thought to be a new speces of sauropod dinosaur that lived around 150 million years ago in the late Jurassic. The display will open November 2024. National Geographic has an article in the September edition of its magazine.…
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Enormous dinosaur dubbed Shiva ‘The Destroyer’ is one of the biggest ever discovered
LiveScience has a story about a new dinosaur discovery. A huge titanosaur, Bustingorrytitan shiva, one of the largest land animals ever, has been found in Argentina. B. shiva had an estimated weight of 74 tons. It lived about 90 million years ago during the middle Cretaceous Period. The animal was described in a paper in the journal Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. The B. shiva discovery in…
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Meet Bustingorrytitan shiva, New Gigantic Titanosaur from Argentina
SciNews has a story about the discovery of yet another titanosaur from Argentina. This one is called Bustingorrytitan shiva and it lived about 95 million years ago in what is now Patagonia during the Late Cretaceous Period. This particular discovery consists of a fairly complete specimen and three other partial skeletons. Read more about it…
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New ‘Giant’ Species of Long-Necked Dinosaur Discovered in Spain
Smithsonian Magazine has a story about the discovery of a new sauropod dinosaur. The dinosaur, Garumbatitan morellensis, lived about 122 million years ago, which is the Cretaceous Period. The specimen was found near Morella in eastern Spain, which is part of the species name. The new animal was described in the journal Zoological Journal of…
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A rare, 95-million-year-old titanosaur skull found in Australia
Popular Science has a story about the discovery of a sauropod skull. The animal, called Diamantinasaurus matildae, lived during the Cretaceous Period nearly 100 million years ago in what is now Australia. This skull represents the fourth specimen ever found. A paper in the journal Royal Society Open Science describes the 19.6 inch long skull. …
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PBS Eons: Is This A Theropod? A Sauropod? A Third Thing?
PBS Eons has a new episode on Youtube. This one is about therizinosaurs and where they fit into the dinosaur family tree. How the therizinosaurs lived and evolved ended up being just as weird as their mixed-up anatomy.
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Ginormous Jurassic fossil in Portugal may be the biggest dinosaur ever found in Europe
Live Science has a story about the discovery of a truly large dinosaur. The sauropod dinosaur has a gigantic rib cage and is possibly a brachiosaurid. It lived about 150 million years ago in what is now Pombal, Portugal, which is north of Lisbon and near the Atlantic coast. By the size of the already…
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NYT: New Dinosaur Species Is Australia’s Largest, Researchers Say
The New York Times has a story about a new dinosaur… from Australia. Australotitan cooperensis is a titanosaur, which is a type of sauropod. It weighted about 70 tons and lived about 90 million years ago during the Cretaceous Period. It’s the largest dinosaur known from Australia. The dinosaur was described in a paper in…
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Smithsonian: Why This ‘Unicorn Baby Dinosaur’ Is the ‘Cutest,’ ‘Weirdest’ Ever
Smithsonian Magazine has a piece about the “cutest”, “weirdest” baby dinosaur ever. The embryo dinosaur is thought to be a Tapuiasaurus, a sauropod that grew to about 43 feet long. The egg was smuggled illegally out of Argentina about 20 years ago. Research published in the journal Current Biology has revealed some insights into the…
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Scientists May Have Wildly Underestimated the Giant Dinosaurs of the Ancient World
LiveScience has an interesting story about sauropod dinosaurs. It seems that their leafy meals were probably a whole lot more hearty, wholesome, and nutrient packed than previously thought. This research appeared in the journal Palaeontology. The conventional wisdom about the big plant-eating dinosaurs, like Brachiosaurus and Argentinosaurus, is that they had to eat huge…
