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'Like a gopher, crocodile, and ostrich' combined: NC paleontologists discover new burrowing dinosaur

https://www.wunc.org/science-technology/2024-07-16/new-dinosaur-underground-fona-herzogae-nc-museum-natural-sciences

The 99-million-year-old fossils of Fona herzogae may help paleontologists fill in gaps in evolutionary history and share insight into how animals are impacted by a changing environment.

'Like a gopher, crocodile, and ostrich' combined: NC paleontologists discover new burrowing dinosaur

4 comments

lvxferre

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I don't know if that artistic rendition - with thick legs, flat arms, and odd hairs - is beautiful or ugly. Probably both.

This is specially interesting because, to my knowledge, we barely know about dinosaur species built their own niches, like this. At most we know how they adapted themselves to already existing ones.

Mothra

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I think it makes a good overall visual description but personally I believe the actual creature must have been more pleasant to look at.

lvxferre

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I believe the actual creature must have been more pleasant to look at.

Agreed - they were probably way cuter.

Etterra

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I hereby dub it the Gophtrichatorsaurus.