Posts Tagged ‘amphibious ecomorphology’

WFS News: Synchrotron scanning reveals amphibious ecomorphology in a new clade of bird-like dinosaurs

@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev An exceptionally well-preserved dinosaur skeleton from Mongolia unites an unexpected combination of features that defines a new group of semi-aquatic predators related to Velociraptor. Detailed 3D synchrotron analysis allowed an international team of researchers to present the bizarre 75 million-year-old predator, named Halszkaraptor escuilliei, in Nature. The study […]