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☆ A Fossil Mystery, Solved by a Spin
  + stars: | 2024-07-15 | by ( Jack Tamisiea | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +8 min
A Fossil Mystery, Solved by a SpinEssexella fossils date back to the Carboniferous period, when northern parts of Illinois hovered just above the equator. Essexella fossils are composed of two structures — a textured, barrel-shaped region and a smooth bulb. “It looked like the bottom of an anemone,” Dr. Plotnick said. Dr. Plotnick, Dr. Hagadorn and their team redescribed Essexella as an ancient anemone last year in the journal Papers in Palaeontology. Dr. Plotnick posits that these animals once lined the floor of the Mazon Creek estuary.
Persons: Roy Plotnick, Francis Tully, Tully, ”, Essexella, Plotnick, James Hagadorn, I've, Marjorie Leggitt, Hagadorn, Edward Drinker Cope, Charles Marsh, couldn’t, De Agostini, Jean, Bernard Caron, Hallucigenia, ” Dr, Caron, Caron’s, Dr Organizations: University of Illinois, Denver Museum of Nature, Field Museum, Getty, Royal Ontario Museum Locations: University of Illinois Chicago, Illinois, Chicago, China, Burgess, Canada
☆ A brand new dinosaur species with spiky armor was recently discovered to have roamed England during the Cretaceous period
  + stars: | 2023-06-20 | by ( Jenny Mcgrath | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
A new species of dinosaur, Vectipelta barretti, was discovered on England's Isle of Wight. The new species is an ankylosaur, with dorsal armor made up of plates, spikes, and curved spines. Researchers will have to examine other ankylosaur fossils to see if they belong to the new species. But the newly-discovered species, Vectipelta, is thought to have been between 6 and 8 million years older than Polacanthus and has a few anatomical differences. Since 2019, at least four other new dinosaur species have been discovered there and scientists aren't holding back with some of the names.
Persons: barretti, —, Vectipelta, Polacanthus, we've, Stuart Pond, Ankylosaurs, William Fox, ankylosaurs, Ceratosuchops inferodios Organizations: Service, Privacy, Scientists, CNN Locations: Isle of Wight, England's Isle of Wight, China, Asia, Europe
☆ New armored dinosaur discovered on Isle of Wight, England
  + stars: | 2023-06-16 | by ( Jack Guy | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +3 min
CNN —A new species of dinosaur with blade-like spikes for armor has been discovered on the Isle of Wight, off the south coast of England. Named Vectipelta barretti, it is the first armored dinosaur, or ankylosaur, to have been found on the island in 142 years, according to a statement from London’s Natural History Museum, where several of the researchers who discovered the dinosaur work. The dinosaur would have lived during the Early Cretaceous period, 145-100.5 million years ago, the museum said. The paper is published in the Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, and the team believe more new species will be discovered on the Isle of Wight, an important source of dinosaur fossils, in the future. In June 2022, scientists identified the remains of a spinosaurid, a predatory dinosaur with two legs and a crocodile-like face, on the island.
Persons: Vectipelta, ”, Stuart Pond, Polacanthus, we’ve, Paul Barrett, “ I’m, “ Organizations: CNN, “ Locations: Isle of Wight, England, Asia, Europe
☆ Ankylosaurs used their sledgehammer tails to fight each other
  + stars: | 2022-12-09 | by ( Ashley Strickland | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +4 min
Scientists also believe ankylosaurs could have used their weapon-like tails to assert social dominance, establish their territory or even while battling for mates. Royal Ontario MuseumThese tails measured up to 10 feet (3 meters) long, with rows of sharp spikes along the sides. The tail’s tip was fortified with bony structures, creating a club that could swing with the force of a sledgehammer. Instead, the pattern looks like the result of receiving a forceful slam from another ankylosaur’s tail club. The Zuul fossil is currently kept in the Royal Ontario Museum’s vertebrate fossil collection.
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