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Paleontology, also spelled palaeontology[a] or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present). It includes the study of fossils to classify organisms and study their interactions with each other and their environments (their /c/paleoecology. Read more...

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[–] Alivrah@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The oviraptorosaur legs enabled the team to identify the prey as Citipes elegans [...]

Gorgosaurus probably “dismembered the small prey, swallowed the legs and left the rest of the body out there,” Therrien says. He suggests these legs may have been “the meatiest part” of the animal and wonders, with a laugh, if perhaps this Gorgosaurus “didn’t want to be bothered having to cough up some feathers.”

“With the discovery of this remarkable specimen, we have direct, irrefutable evidence of not only what this species was snacking on,” Zanno says, “but the gory details of how it went about it.”

[–] CodexArcanum@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Everyone in fiction eats the frozen mammoth, never the frozen dino buffalo wings. What flavor you picking?

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They're only Buffalo wings if they're Buffalo-style. Otherwise, it's just sparkling avian appendages.

[–] teft@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago

Im getting garlic parm.