New Spinosaurus Fossil Sparks Debate on Ancient Predator's Lifestyle

New Spinosaurus fossil found with head crest. Scientists debate if it hunted like a wading bird or crocodile. Learn how this changes views on ancient life.

#Spinosaurus, #DinosaurFossil, #Paleontology, #AncientLife, #CretaceousPeriod

https://newsletter.tf/spinosaurus-fossil-ancient-predator-lifestyle-debate/

A new Spinosaurus fossil shows a strange head crest, making scientists think it hunted like a bird, not a crocodile. This changes what we thought about dinosaurs 95 million years ago.

#Spinosaurus, #DinosaurFossil, #Paleontology, #AncientLife, #CretaceousPeriod

https://newsletter.tf/spinosaurus-fossil-ancient-predator-lifestyle-debate/

‘Very odd' 40-foot-long #MarineReptile stalked prehistoric Canada: https://zorz.it/FyrXo

#LauraBaisas #TraskasauraSandrae #CretaceousPeriod #SetOfTeeth #NorthAmerica #JournalOfSystematicPalaeontology #GiantPolarReptile #PrehistoricCanada

Weeping about a sedimentary line and pollen in the last breath of a cretaceous fish

(video about the line of iridium that marks the before/after the end on the cretaceous extinction)

#geology #ScienceMastodon #cretaceousperiod

For some reason, now, while I'm drawing this, I'm reminded of the old Disney cartoon "earth before the beginning of time."
I've already shed a tear🥲.

There are two references on the sides, on the left is a reconstruction of what the earth looked like during the Jurassic-Cretaceous periods, on the right is a landscape located, located near the petrified forest in Khabarovsk.
#art #prehistory_time #JurassicPeriod #cretaceousperiod #artist #artwork

Futurism: Scientists Find Evidence of an Ancient Rainforest in Antarctica…

Scientists have discovered amber in a sediment core recovered thousands of feet below the surface of the Antarctic, a baffling finding that could indicate the existence of an ancient temperate rainforest in the now-frozen region dating back to the Cretaceous Period around 90 million years ago... futurism.com #antarctica #cretaceousperiod #rainforest #amber #science #geologicaltime

https://formuchdeliberation.wordpress.com/2024/11/17/futurism-scientists-find-evidence-of-an-ancient-rainforest-in-antarctica/

Referenced link: https://phys.org/news/2023-04-neuroptera-greater-insect-diversity-cretaceous.html
Discuss on https://discu.eu/q/https://phys.org/news/2023-04-neuroptera-greater-insect-diversity-cretaceous.html

Originally posted by Phys.org / @physorg_com: http://nitter.platypush.tech/physorg_com/status/1649417221683261442#m

Neuroptera: Greater insect #diversity in the #Cretaceousperiod @SciReports https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-32103-8 https://phys.org/news/2023-04-neuroptera-greater-insect-diversity-cretaceous.html