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66-million-year-old dinosaur embryo found in China
A 66-million-year-old dinosaur embryo was discovered in Ganzhou in southern China. Highlights The embryo is believed to be a toothless theropod dinosaur, or oviraptorosaur, It has been named Baby Yingliang. The discovery of embryo has also provided researchers a greater understanding of the link between dinosaurs and modern birds. The fossil provides that, embryo was ..
Month: Current Affairs - December, 2021
Category: Environment Current Affairs • International / World Current Affairs
Topics: jurassic • Late Cretaceous Period • UPSC
Kyhytysuka sachicarum: New Marine Reptile Discovered
Kyhytysuka sachicarum is a new marine reptile species discovered by an international team of researchers. It is an extinct species. It was discovered from fossils found in central Columbia. Earlier scientists believed that it belonged to Platypterygius genus. Recently, it was discovered that it is a different species. And thus it is now named as ..
Month: Current Affairs - December, 2021
Category: Environment Current Affairs • International / World Current Affairs
Topics: Columbia • Dinosaur • Fossils • jurassic • New Species
Tyrannosaurus rex outnumbered 2.5 billon
According to a new study at the University of California more than 2.5 billion Tyrannosaurus rex roamed the earth more than million years ago. Key findings of the study The numbers of the dinosaurs were calculated based on body size and sexual maturity. These dinosaurs lived over 127,000 generations. Though huge in number, their population ..
Month: Current Affairs - April, 2021
Category: Reports & Indexes Current Affairs • Science & Technology Current Affairs
Topics: Dinosaurs • Fossils • jurassic • Specimens of Tyrannosaurus • Triassic • Vertebrates