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73 million-year-old dinosaur remains with extremely long hands stuns explorers
The remains of new Ostrich-like dinosaurs with exceptionally long hands in Mexico have stunned paleontologists. This new ornithomimosaur, officially named Mexidracon longimanus, represents a brand ...
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New genus and species within Ornithomimidae dinosaur family identified in Mexico
In their paper published in the journal Cretaceous Research, the group describes their study of the ancient ostrich-like dinosaur, and where it fits in with its family tree. Ornithomimidae is a ...
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Ancient ‘ostrich-like’ creature — 73 million years old — found as new species in Mexico
The dinosaur had some of the tell-tale features of the “ostrich-like” dinosaurs with long legs and necks and shorter arms tucked to their bodies. But it wasn’t quite like anything they had ...
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Bird-like lungs may have helped dinosaurs thrive in prehistoric atmosphere
The study, published in Royal Society Open Science, compared dinosaur lungs to those of living crocodilians, such as crocodiles and alligator, and the lungs of modern-day bird species, such as the ...
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Fossilized dinosaur cells that defied the ravages of time — 20 years since a key discovery
The 2005 finding of cells and blood vessels in dinosaur bone launched a systematic ... by comparison with those observed for modern ostrich bone. The authors suggested that the “dinosaurian ...