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WFS News: This oviraptorosaur may have met its end in a Chinese slush pit

@ WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T sajeev The workmen were building a high school, blasting out the site with dynamite in the southern Chinese city of Ganzhou when they saw it: the newly exposed fossil of a small, child-sized dinosaur. It was well preserved despite the construction, and it struck a curious pose: head […]

WFS News: Ameloblastoma — a rare, non-cancerous tumor on Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus

@ WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The dinosaur fossil, estimated to be 69-67 million years old (Cretaceous period), was discovered in an outcrop of the Sinpetru Formation along the banks of the Sibisel River, in the Haţeg County Dinosaurs Geopark, western Romania. The specimen is represented by a pair of well-preserved, associated lower […]