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A new species of an armored dinosaur was unearthed in southwestern China, providing additional evolutionary information about the early Jurassic period. Utah had its own variations of armored dinosaurs.
Last Chance Mine, Black Rock Point Mining District, Carrizo Range, Apache County, Arizona, USA : A former U-V occurrence/mine located in secs. 11, 12, 13 & 14, T40N, R28E, G&SRM, just S of the George Simpson 1A & B Mines. This locality is not listed in the USGS MRDS database. Ore is ...
The Children’s Museum’s Dinosphere reopens March 19 with a new look and some very old tenants.
Among the most iconic and remarkable of dinosaurs are the stegosaurs, a mostly Jurassic group of thyreophorans famous for the rows of spikes and plates that decorated their necks, backs and tails [somewhat inaccurate Stegosaurus stenops shown below. I did it many years ago].
If asked "Why do giraffes have such long necks?", the majority of people - professional biologists among them - will answer that it's something to do with increasing vertical reach and hence feeding range. But while the 'increased vertical reach' or 'increased feeding envelope' hypothesis has always been the most popular explanation invoked to explain the giraffe's neck, it isn't the only one.