Tag: Wales
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Welsh ‘weird wonder’ fossils add piece to puzzle of arthropod evolution
Phys.org has a story about a new “weird wonder” from the Ordovician Period. This new animal is called Mieridduryn bonniae and is thought to be related to Opabinia, which is one of the iconic animals discovered in the Burgess Shale by Charles Walcott in 1909. Many of the Burgess Shale animals were termed “weird wonders”…
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Newfound ‘chief dragon’ dinosaur species was actually the size of a chicken
LiveScience has an article about a newly discovered “dragon”. This animal’s name, Pendraig milnerae, means “chief dragon”, but in reality it was about the size of a chicken. It lived about 215 million years ago during the late Triassic Period in what is now modern day Wales and is one of the oldest known dinosaurs…
