Review and photos by Faelrin, edited by Dinotoyblog

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A new study uses ordinary bones to discover extraordinary things!

Christina Garros and a team including Mark Powers, and Dr. Philip Currie (University of Alberta) looked at troodon foot bones from Dinosaur Provincial Park. A close examination revealed both patterns of injury and bone growth that tell us how these they lived - and even suggest three different growth trajectories. Very mysterious!

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joa.14262

#paleontology #paleontology #fossils #dinosaurs #troodon #alberta

Open access article, and the "non-technical summary" section near the beginning gives an overview everyone can understand. 🧪🦖

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-paleontology/article/troodontid-specimens-from-the-cretaceous-two-medicine-formation-of-montana-usa-and-the-validity-of-troodon-formosus/3E58F1FDA3FE53DE569E0D0B20E79F22

Very short version: #Troodon was considered a valid #genus for well over a century, until it was merged with #Stenonychosaurus about a decade ago, and due to specimen quality Stenonychosaurus took priority. Now careful examination indicates Troodon is a valid genus again.

This process is familiar from other famous #dinosaur genera, most notably #Brontosaurus and #Apatosaurus. Even *living* animals are hard to classify a lot of the time; nothing between #kingdom and #species is really set in stone. The tension between "#lumpers" and "#splitters" never ends.

Troodon is special. Maybe it was intelligent, in a way we'd recognize as such, and maybe it wasn't. But it was almost surely *smart*, and quite possibly social, and likely an omnivore. Does that remind you of anyone?

Maybe I'm fooling myself, when I feel a kinship across deep time. And maybe I'm not.

Flaunting Flab YCH for Troodon

#fat #fatfur #furry #furryart #belly #gut #troodon #dinosaur #ych

A random artwork from my gallery:

"The Sacred and The Profane" — 2024

People have been speculating for a while now about what smart dinosaurs (usually Troodon) would have looked like if they had not been killed in the M/C Extinction event.
Would they be good people?

https://johnconway.art/the_sacred_and_the_profane

#Art #Dinosauroids #Dinosaurs #Italian #Painting #Portraits #SpeculativeEvolution #Titian #Troodon

Puede que veamos una actualización al drama del Troodon. Han dado un avance, pero aún no hay nada publicado al respecto. #troodon #dinosaurios #dinosaurs #paleontologia #paleontology

https://resolviendolaincognita.blogspot.com/2021/09/dinosaurio-troodon-identidad.html

#Troodon may once again be a valid #genus. Or, uh, so I’ve heard.

#Brontosaurus is smiling, and #Diatryma is waiting patiently.