Flying Dinosaurs: What Really Flew in the Age of Dinosaurs (and What Didn’t)
When people say “flying dinosaurs,” they usually mean one of two things:True flying dinosaurs = birds (the only dinosaurs alive today).Dinosaur relatives that flew = pterosaurs (often mislabeled as “flying dinosaurs,” but not dinosaurs).And then there’s a third, fascinating middle ground: non-b...
Velociraptor
Chinese name:xùn měng lóngLatin name: VelociraptorOther names: Velociraptor ("agile thief"), Velociraptor, VelociraptorExisting period: Late Cretaceous period 83 million to 70 million years agoDistribution area: Inner Mongolia, China, MongoliaDiet: CarnivoreAggression: Very highLength:...
Megaraptor
Megaraptor was a large meat-eating theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of South America. It is best known for its oversized hand claws and its unusual mix of features, which have made it one of the more debated predatory dinosaurs in modern paleontology. When it was first described, some of i...
Oviraptor
Oviraptor was a small, lightly built theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Asia. It is one of the most famous feathered dinosaurs and is especially well known for the misunderstanding behind its name. Early researchers thought it had been caught stealing eggs, which led to the name “egg thi...
Utahraptor
Utahraptor (Utahraptor ostrommaysorum) was a giant “raptor” dinosaur from the Cretaceous of North America. It belongs to the dromaeosaurids—theropods famous for agility, sharp teeth, and a sickle-shaped claw on the second toe. Utahraptor stands out because it was much larger than the more famous...
Santanaraptor
Santanaraptor (Santanaraptor placidus) is a small theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of northeastern Brazil. It is best known because its fossils were found in deposits that can preserve delicate details, including rare traces of soft tissues. Only partial remains are known, and the most co...
Velociraptor
Velociraptor is one of the most famous dinosaurs in popular culture, but the real animal was quite different from the movie version. In reality, Velociraptor was a small, feathered predator that lived during the Late Cretaceous in Asia, especially in what is now Mongolia. Despite its relatively smal...
Animals of the Ice Age: Survival, Adaptation, and Extinction
The Ice Age, or Pleistocene Epoch, was a period that lasted from about 2.6 million to 11,700 years ago. It was characterized by repeated glaciations and freezing temperatures, which created unique and challenging environments for the animals that lived during this time. From massive megafauna like t...
Top 10 Most Powerful Dinosaurs
Here are some of the top ten dinosaurs that are considered to be the strongest, in no particular order:1. Tyrannosaurus rex: One of the most well-known dinosaurs, with a strong body and huge jaws. They may be one of the most powerful hunting animals on land.2. Spinosaurus: The largest known carnivor...
The golden eagle, the king of raptors, was discovered for the first time in Wawushan, Sichuan
The golden eagle, the king of raptors, was discovered for the first time in Wawu Mountain, Sichuan! So happy to hear this! The golden eagle is the national bird of China and one of the largest birds of prey in the world. They often live in mountains or grasslands and feed on small mammals, bi...
A comprehensive inventory of all kinds of strange dinosaurs_Ten kinds of dinosaurs with strange bodi
Dinosaurs are animals from ancient times. We don’t know what they looked like. Through scientists’ reconstructions, we have a rough idea of what they looked like. What exactly did dinosaurs look like? Next, the editor will take you to see ten strange bodies. Plant dinosaurs....
Eothenomys shimianensis
Asbestos woolly rat is a new species published by Liu Shaoying et al. in 2018, and its type locality is located in Shimian County, Sichuan. In the phylogenetic tree constructed based on the mitochondrial genome, asbestos woolly rat and Kachin woolly rat constitute sister groups, and in the phylogene...
Eothenomys custos
The southwestern woolly rat belongs to the subgenus <Anteliomys> of the genus <Anteliomys>, and its species-level status is stable. There are currently 4 subspecies under the species, all distributed in Yunnan. The nominate subspecies <E. c. custos> (Thomas, 1912), the type localit...
Among the top ten living birds of prey, the golden eagle does not even rank among the top five.
Birds of prey are one of the six major groups of birds (the other five are songbirds, waders, migratory birds, land birds, and climbing birds), including all existing birds of the order Accipiliformes, Falconiformes, and Owls. The birds under Birds of Prey are all ferocious carnivores, and they are...
How did birds learn to fly?
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....
The 10 most common types of eagles in China, how many do you know?
Today I’m going to talk to you about the topic of eagles. There are many types of eagles. There are more than 190 species in the world. There are more than 20 species common in Taiwan Province of my country, covering all eagle species in China. They are distributed in the mid- and low-altitude moun...
The heaviest bird that can fly over Mount Everest
Vultures, also known as vultures, are large scavenging birds with as many as 22 species, mainly living in the tropics and subtropics. There are 7 species of New World vultures, including the famous condor introduced earlier, and 15 species of Old World vultures, including griffons and vultures. The...