Warm-blooded dinosaurs first roamed the Earth about 180 million years ago in new study - fullSTEAMahead365

Analyzing over 1,000 fossils, climate models, and dinosaur family trees, scientists have determined that warm-blooded dinosaurs appeared about halfway through their time on the planet, about 180 million years ago, in a new study published in the journal, Current Biology.

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The first #Jurassic #dinosaur ichnosite from Bolivia https://paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2023/09/01/the-first-jurassic-dinosaur-ichnosite-from-bolivia/ by @Ferwen

"The vast #Botucatú Desert, which ran from #Bolivia to #Brazil and had its counterpart in #Africa, occupied the center of #Gondwana. In this scenario, #sauropodomorph diversity patterns reached a peak similar with those of #theropods and #ornithischians."

The first Jurassic dinosaur ichnosite from Bolivia: a 150-million-year-old ‘dinosaur daycare’.

Bolivia yields an outstanding dinosaur ichnological record. Different ichnosites in the Chuquisaca Department, and the Potosí Department, reveal an outstanding abundance and diversity of theropod, …

Letters from Gondwana.

#NewSpecies of #Colossosaur Identified in Argentina
https://www.sci.news/paleontology/chucarosaurus-diripienda-11629.html

A new gigant #titanosaur (Dinosauria, #Sauropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of Northwestern #Patagonia, #Argentina https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0195667123000150

#Titanosaurs were the most diverse and abundant terrestrial #herbivores in the Southern Hemisphere landmasses during the Late #Cretaceous. Their high diversity rivals that of the hadrosaurid and ceratopsid #ornithischians of northern hemisphere ecosystems at the same time.