Archive for June 2nd, 2024

WFS News: Abelisauroid, a dinosaur with very tiny arms

@WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev A team of paleontologists from Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas and The Chinese University of Hong Kong, has identified a new species of abelisauroid dinosaur. They have named it Koleken inakayali. The work is published in the journal Cladistics. […]

WFS News: Scientists Discover Potential Origin of the First “Warm-Blooded” Dinosaurs

@WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev A new study led by researchers from UCL and the University of Vigo suggests that the ability to regulate body temperature, a characteristic shared by all modern mammals and birds, may have first developed among certain dinosaurs in the early Jurassic period, approximately 180 million years ago. […]