Dinosaurs are diversified and dominant terrestrial vertebrates that appeared in the Mesozoic Era and dominated the global terrestrial ecosystem for more than 160 million years. If you want to know the best in the world of dinosaurs, be sure to read the introduction below....
Eight million years ago, soft, boneless creatures first evolved into fish with internal skeletons. Fish then evolved into amphibians that walked on land, and then evolved into reptiles. One of these reptiles evolved into archosaurs. The earliest dinosaurs were small, bipe...
1. Birds in the world today evolved in the age of dinosaurs. The scientific community generally believes that dinosaurs are the ancestors of birds, and many dinosaurs themselves also had feathers. 2. At the same time, dinosaurs also have a relatively c...
1. ForagingThe plants that herbivorous dinosaurs can eat are limited by their height, so some small herbivorous dinosaurs will stand on their hind limbs in order to eat high plant leaves. Carnivorous dinosaurs fed on herbivorous dinosaurs and other animals. The different foraging methods of various...
How do birds learn to fly? Were the earliest birds arboreal creatures that glided from trees to the ground, or were they bipedal land animals that evolved wings and developed a preference for long-distance hopping? Researchers have not formed a unified understanding of this....
On February 16, 2017, Scientific Reports published an article by Wang Xiaolin’s research team at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Jiang Shunxing and Cheng Xin, and Linyi University’s Institute of Geology and Paleontology, Wang Xiao...
On May 2, a research team composed of paleontologists from various research institutions in mainland China, Hong Kong, Canada and other places reported in the journal Nature Communication a species that lived about 125 million years ago. Dinosaur of the year - Jianianhualongs tengi. This is a...
Hadrosaurs are a type of large terrestrial herbivorous ornithischian dinosaurs that lived in the late Cretaceous period. Their fossils are widely distributed and have been found on other continents except Oceania. The most obvious features of hadrosaurs are the long and flat head with...
The Xinjiang Hami scientific expedition team led by researcher Wang Xiaolin from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, after more than ten years of continuous field scientific...
"Scientific Reports" published on February 27 reported the research results of a new species of ankylosaurus fossils discovered in Hu Town, Jinyun County, Zhejiang Province. This species was officially named Jinyunpelta sinensis. The research results were jointly completed by researchers Z...
Xu Xing's team from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences published their latest results on the evolution of sauropod dinosaurs in the British journal Nature Communications on July 24, reporting a species from the early Middle Jurassic...
The reduction in the number of fingers or toes has occurred many times in the evolution of tetrapods. The most famous example is the "Horse Fossil Sequence" (this is a series of equine fossils from primitive to progressive, which reveal the gradual reduction of limbs to one digit in the evolu...
Dinosaurs were once the absolute overlords of this planet, but due to various reasons, they eventually withdrew from the stage of history and became evidence of people's exploration of history. But it is undeniable that dinosaurs were much larger and more lethal than humans. Today let us lear...
Dinosaurs were once the rulers of the earth, ruling the land for 160 million years. There are too many unsolved mysteries about dinosaurs, how did they become extinct, how did they mate, etc. How much do you know? Let’s find out more with this theme group. 1. How did din...
There may be multiple versions of the story of the destruction of the world, and the extinction of life directly caused by an asteroid impact is only one of them. Were the massive climate changes that led to the extinction of the dinosaurs caused by volcanic eruptions? Or was it caused by an asteroi...
A type of reptiles that appeared in the Mesozoic era are called dinosaurs. Most of them had strong limbs, long tails and huge bodies. So what are the interesting record-breaking records in the huge and mysterious world of dinosaurs? If you want to know the best in the dinosaur world, you must read t...
Dinosaurs are oviparous reptiles, and like birds, they reproduce by laying eggs. We know that some bird eggs are very large, such as goose eggs, which weigh about half a catty (250 grams), and ostrich eggs can reach about 1,500 grams. , so how big should a dinosaur egg be?In fact, dinosaurs came in...
Multiple U.S. media reported on the 24th, citing sources from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Service, that a severe drought caused the river to completely dry up. At Dinosaur Valley State Park in Somerville County in northern Texas, a 113-million-year-old cave hidden under the river was discovered. Fo...
Torosaurus was a herbivorous dinosaur that lived in the late Cretaceous period in North America about 70 million years ago. It was about 8 meters long. It has a huge head with a brightly colored, oversized shield on the back of its head, two large sharp horns above its eyes, and a small horn next to...
Seismosaurus means "lizard that shakes the earth". It is now renamed as Diplodocus hardenii. It is the largest diplodocus in the Jurassic period and the largest dinosaur. The reason why it was called Seismosaurus before is because they can walk very quickly. It causes the earth to tremble, an...
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