bobcatmoran:fimbry:YOOOO now my main dude is a dino-crocodile-eel?? Just continues to mash my favori
bobcatmoran:fimbry:YOOOO now my main dude is a dino-crocodile-eel?? Just continues to mash my favorite things all together. This is like, the best gift.For further elaboration, a new find of the first mostly-complete Spinosaurus tail shows that it basically had a tail like a crocodile or alligator and had bone structure more similar to aquatic animals than those that live on land. There had previously been similar finds back in the early 20th century that were basically regarded as “wow, there’s clearly something weird going on here different from other dinosaurs, but we don’t know enough to figure out what” but those fossils were lost during WWII bombings.National Geographic article on the new findingsPeer-reviewed article in the well-regarded journal Nature, behind a paywall except for the abstract, alas. -- source link
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