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Dinosaur of the day Brachytrachelopan, a dicraeosaurid sauropod from the Late Jurassic that had an extremely short neck (for a sauropod).
In dinosaur news this week:
- A new abelisaurid from Patagonia, Elemgasem, was small but named after a mighty Tehuelche god
- Scientists suggested volcanic eruptions could be the main reason for mass extinctions
- Scientists suggested dinosaurs were on the decline before they went extinct
- The moon includes evidence of asteroid impacts on Earth
- There is a second underwater crater that is from around the same time as Chicxulub
- A new model shows the tsunami after the Chicxulub impact
- The Chicxulub impact may have triggered an earthquake that lasted weeks to months
- Precipitation played a role in the abundance and success of hadrosaurs and ceratopsians in the Late Cretaceous in what is now Alaska
- Dinosaurs may have been successful and diverse because of the differences in their diets
- 80 million year old dinosaur eggs were recently found in Jiangxi Province, China
- In Skåne, Sweden, large carnivorous dinosaurs from the Late Triassic were recently found
- Reykjavík might be getting a Triceratops skeleton to display
- To celebrate National Fossil Day, Mississippi State University’s Dunn-Seiler Museum had a competition to name their Triceratops
- A man in New Zealand used VR to sculpt and then 3D print a life-sized model of a Tyrannosaurus
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