China’s famously rich dinosaur fossil beds get a new origins story

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China’s famously rich dinosaur fossil beds get a new origins story

Cave-ins and floods may have buried the Cretaceous creatures of the fossil Jehol Biota rather than volcanic eruptions, a new study claims.

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New dinosaur fossil pair discovered in North China's Inner Mongolia

Chinese paleontologists have discovered two relatively complete and closely adjacent dinosaur skeleton fossils in North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

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Recent research into dinosaur diets shows why they ruled the Earth - Conservative Angle

The sutdy used hundreds of fossils of well-fed dinosaurs to compare and contrast nutrition dynamics across five vertebrate assemblages of these beasts from the Triassic and Jurassic periods. The post Recent research into dinosaur diets shows why they ruled the Earth appeared first on Conservative Angle | Conservative Angle - Conservative News Clearing House

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The areas now occupied by Poland were once dominated by dinosaurs. Recent research sheds completely new light on their lives.

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Rethinking the Origins of China's Rich Yixian Fossil Beds

Key Takeaways: – The Yixian fossil beds, said to be created by a volcano catastrophe, might have a different origin – Research suggests that the creatures found in these beds died due to a series of unfortunate events, not a single disastrous event – The Yixian Formation provides a brief glimpse of Early Cretaceous life and death – The new theory claims that Psittacosaurus dinosaurs died when their burrows collapsed, not from volcanic flows – Th…

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Isotope analysis reveals ‘mundane’ origins of remarkable dinosaur ...

Collapsing burrows, not volcanoes, killed the dinosaurs in China’s Yixian Formation