New Thalattosaur Species Discovered in Southeast Alaska

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New Thalattosaur Species Discovered in Southeast Alaska

  Scientists at the University of Alaska Fairbanks have identified a new species of thalattosaur, a marine reptile that lived more than 200 million years ago. The new species, Gunakadeit joseeae, is the most complete thalattosaur ever found in North America and has given paleontologists new insights about the thalattosaurs’ family tree, according to a […]

Big Dinosaurs Steered Clear of the Tropics

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Big Dinosaurs Steered Clear of the Tropics

For more than 30 million years after dinosaurs first appeared, they remained inexplicably rare near the equator, where only a few small-bodied meat-eating dinosaurs made a living. The long absence at low latitudes has been one of the great, unanswered questions about the rise of the dinosaurs. Now the mystery has a solution, according to […]