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Shell Stealing Dinosaurs
Known from the Nemegt Formation of Maastrichtian soils of Mongolia, specifically the Red Beds of Hermiin Tsav, the conch stealing oviraptorid Conchoraptor gracilis. Barsbold 1986 described a partial...
View ArticleThe Video File
There have been, as we have gotten more and more into the lesser known dinosaurs, fewer and fewer resources available at any given time. This has been related to the popularity of given dinosaurs, of...
View ArticleThe Brains and Skulls
Brains and other soft tissues are of great interest to scientists in extant and fossil specimens. There are a variety of ways to study organs in extant specimens and many of those methods can actually...
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Feathers and Genders
At least one site mentions that Conchoraptor remains have been discovered with attached feathers. These feathers have been described sparingly, but have been described as sexually dimorphic characters...
View ArticleSomewhat Well-Known
Conchoraptor has made a larger impact than many other dinosaurs. It is still not a widely known dinosaur, but it is known throughout the dinosaur community to a greater extent than many other...
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Monotreme Party
In looking for new animal this week we are going out of our normal range and into the time of the mammals. Becoming extinct approximately 50,000 years ago during the Pleistocene, the tachyglossid (a...
View ArticleMega Facts
Megalibgwilia is an unusual animal for a variety of reasons. Some of these reasons are detailed in the facts that are know about the animal and shared on various websites and fact pages. There are a...
View ArticleShort on Papers
There are not many papers hosted online featuring Megalibgwilia. Considering that these echidna ancestors have been known and described for almost 150 years, the lack of modern articles is somewhat sad...
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Megalibgwilia's Elbow
W. H. Wesley, Humerus of M. ramsayiOwen's original description of Echidna ramsayi, later synonymized as Megalibgwilia ramsayi, consisted entirely of a detailed look at the broken left humerus of one of...
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Megalibgwilia is known in parts of the world that are not Australia, but its popularity, in the form of common popular outlets such as books movies, websites, video games, and toys, appears to be...
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Fur to Frogs
©Nobu Tamura; released as Palaeobatrachus gigasPalaeobatrachus is a genus consisting of at least two named species, P. occidentalis and P. robustus (with others being mentioned that we will explore...
View ArticleAncient Frog Links
Palaeobatrachus appears in a number of links and on a number of websites that are helpful for children and other fossil enthusiasts of course. The links range from very easy and quick reads, such as...
View ArticleShort Dinosaur Train Day
Today there is only a single documentary/feature that shows Palaeobatrachus and discusses it. Dinosaur Train has an entire episode about the family venturing out on a camping trip that also features...
View ArticleVolumes of Frogs
The number of papers written about Palaeobatrachus is well more than enough for a book all on its own. There are papers from this year that mention Palaeobatrachus and compare it to other fossil frogs,...
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The Lungs of Frogs
The typical lungs of your average frog are similar in general shape to the lungs of other terrestrial vertebrates in that they appear as lobes of soft tissue at the end of a trachea. They are also...
View ArticleFrog Prince(ss) of Popularity
Living permanently in water, Palaeobatrachus was the kind of frog that people often think of when someone suggest that they imagine a frog going about its daily routine; this or a similar idea are...
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Rays and Skates
© Didier DescouensRays and skates are members of the Chondrichthyes, a class of animals that first abundantly populated the oceans during the middle of the Devonian period and has persisted into the...
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Skate Video
For those that lie to read their videos, there is a really informative video posted by the user Gemini Bull. The video is really a compilation of information found on all kinds of different sites...
View ArticleZooming In
Heliobatis, despite being well known for a very long time, is not really a charismatic animal that has garnered a lot of demand in the documentary, cartoon, or feature movies of the world. As a...
View ArticleWritten Rays
Many of the papers that appear in preliminary searches concerning Heliobatis either use the ray for comparison or note a collection of fauna from a given locality. These are of great worth to us in...
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