The reconstructed specimen — about 14 feet long from the tip of the snout to the tip of the tail — demonstrates the importance of the preparators to the museum’s scientific and educational missions, said Vanessa Rhue, the Peabody’s collections manager for vertebrate paleontology.
This is amazing!
a ravenous Repenomamus, an ancient mammal the size of an opossum, pounced on an unsuspecting Psittacosaurus—an herbivorous dinosaur more than three times its size.
Whoa.
The limb, complete with skin, is just one of a series of remarkable finds emerging from the Tanis fossil site in the US State of North Dakota.
Whoa!
An analysis of two fossils would push back the origins of feathers by about 70 million years, but more specimens may be needed for confirmation.
My mind is continually blown by these incredible discoveries in paleontology. Again, wish I could time travel to tell this to my 8 yo self!
"We don't just have a skeleton," said one of the nodosaur researchers involved. "We have a dinosaur as it would have been."
No matter now many times I read about this--I still think it's so cool!