Portal:Paleontology/DYK/28
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- ... that the king of gore (skull pictured) and the monstrous murderer lived in Utah 80 and 75 million years ago respectively?
- ... that species of the Cambrian bivalve Tuarangia lived near the continents of Baltica and East Gondwana?
- ... that a fossil of Concavodonta described in 1843 has been lost?
- ... that the extinct paddlefish Paleopsephurus was first described from the Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation?
- ... that the Triassic archosaur Poposaurus walked on two legs like some dinosaurs, but was more closely related to crocodiles?
- ... that Decuriasuchus may be the first known archosaur to exhibit group behavior?
- ... that out of about 20,000 Clarno Formation fossils, only 5 were from the extinct dogwood Cornus clarnensis?
- ... that Scottish naturalist Ramsay Heatley Traquair received the Royal Medal of the Royal Society in 1907 for his work on fossil fish?
- ... that the extinct ant Anochetus exstinctus was described from only two of the three fossils known to the species author?
- ... that the extinct Cuban condor Gymnogyps varonai may have fed on ground sloths?