Dinosaur has long since disappeared from the face of the Earth. But everything about his life is still being studied until now. Throughout 2021, there are five of the most interesting dinosaur fossil discoveries.
Throughout the year, discoveries from the world of dinosaurs have been revealed and have helped provide new insights for researchers and the world. So what are the discoveries? dinosaur fossils throughout 2021?
The following is a review of the unique dinosaurs that paleontologists discovered during 2021.
Toothless dinosaur
Researchers find strange dinosaur fossils in Brazil. This dinosaur, which is known to be small, apparently has no teeth or is toothless.
Get information, inspiration and insight in your email. Register an email The discovery of the toothless dinosaur named Berthasaura leopoldinae is quite confusing for researchers.
They have doubts about what kind of food these dinosaurs, who lived about 70 million years ago, ate. But researchers assume that this toothless dinosaur was an omnivore that lived in an inhospitable environment, so it had to eat whatever it found there.
Dinosaurs live in groups
Dinosaurs apparently had complex and gregarious social behavior. This was revealed after researchers found a dinosaur nest in Patagonia, Argentina.
Study on dozens of fossils dinosaur this suggests that the early dinosaurs lived in groups. (Jorge Gonzalez vi SCIENCE ALERT) The nest, known to hold more than 100 fossilized eggs and bones of 80 Mussaurus patagonicus dinosaurs ranging from small to adults. The discovery of dinosaurs living in groups is the oldest evidence that dinosaurs lived in herds.
Long necked dinosaur
Researchers think that living in herds would have protected the dinosaurs during this very vulnerable and fragile stage of their life. World’s longest dinosaur find Researchers identify the longest dinosaur that ever lived on this planet.
The title was given to Supersaurus, a long-necked sauropod that had a whip-like tail. See Photo of Supersaurus compared to the meat-eating dinosaur Allosaurus ( (Sean Fox/Gustavo Monroy/Fossil Crates) ) Previously it was quite difficult to prove Supersaurus as the longest dinosaur because of the fragmentary fossils found.
However, the results of the latest analysis have revealed that the dinosaur, which lived about 150 million years ago, was 39 meters long and could even reach 42 meters from snout to tail. This size has never been recorded before. So that it becomes an amazing and interesting finding this year.
Dinosaurs live in the North Pole
Dinosaurs have been thought to have lived in warm regions. However, the discovery of dinosaur fossils and their babies in the Arctic provides a new perspective on the life of these ancient creatures Armored Tails in Chile See Photo Reconstruction of baby oviraptorosaurs inside their eggs.
Baby dinosaur embryo fossil found in China reveals new clue to dinosaur evolution. (Julius Csotonyi via SCIENCE ALERT) The findings show that several species of dinosaurs not only settled in warm areas but also lived and even reproduced in cold tundra areas. According to the researchers, the dinosaurs would lay their eggs in the spring when most of the vegetation was growing. Then hatch before winter.
Previously, researchers assumed that dinosaurs in the Arctic were just migrating. However, this opinion has been refuted. Because to migrate from the region to the South to the North Pole, dinosaurs had to travel a minimum of 3000 km round trip.
View Photo The embryo of this dinosaur is believed to be a type of toothless theropod dinosaur, or oviraptorosaur, and was named Baby Yingliang. (RAPPLERDOTCOM via TWITTER)
Discovery of baby dinosaur curled up
Researchers recently discovered dinosaur embryos that are still well-preserved in southern China. What makes this discovery interesting is that the embryo is still hidden behind the egg shell in a curled up position.
According to the researchers, this position is a pose of the body preparing to hatch. So far, the crouched pose has never been documented because most of the embryonic fossils found are incomplete.
No wonder the discovery of the baby dinosaur curled up at the end of this year can provide valuable information about the development of dinosaurs from time to time.
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