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This got a bunch of replies, let's get this topic the same way: http://coffee-house-forum.com/topic/4027263/1/?x=90#new


 "Six new species of goblin spiders named after famous goblins and brownies": https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20...141012.htm

"These Bright Orange Crocodiles Could Be Evolving Into a New Species": https://www.sciencealert.com/orange-afri...ew-species

"A New Bird Species Has Evolved on Galapagos And Scientists Watched It Happen": https://www.sciencealert.com/darwin-s-fi...-galapagos
^this one's old, but I like it! Whoa!
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Wow, bright orange crocodiles?! I think I've seen it all now!

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Stunning Fossil Discovery Reveals a New Dinosaur With Iridescent Feathers
It may have been as bright as a hummingbird.
MICHELLE STARR
16 JAN 2018
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(Velizar Simeonovski, The Field Museum, for UT Austin Jackson School of Geosciences)

The discovery that dinosaurs were feathery, not leathery, means we've had to rethink how they might have looked - and now there's evidence that at least one dinosaur could have been as brilliantly coloured as some of the most jewel-hued modern birds.

Caihong juji, a name that means "rainbow with the big crest" in Mandarin, was a tiny, duck-sized dinosaur from China. The fossil it left behind indicates a bony crest on its beak, and a brilliant, iridescent ruff of feathers around its neck - the earliest evidence of a colour-based display.
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The impression of the skeleton can be seen in brown and the feathers in black. (Hu, et al., 2018)

Read more: https://www.sciencealert.com/newly-disco...w-feathers


Holy crap. That's amazing. :O
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Giant Pterosaur Sported 110 Teeth (and 4 Wicked Fangs)
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A little more than 200 million years ago, a four-fanged pterosaur flew over the vast desert of Triassic Utah snagging other reptiles with its toothy mouth, until it met its untimely end on the banks of a dried-up oasis, new research finds. 
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This Big-Eyed, Deep-Sea Shark Looks Like an Anime Character
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Alien, or anime character? Neither! It's Genie's Dogfish — a new shark species named for the famous marine biologist, Eugenie Clark. 
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This Was the World's Largest Bird. It Weighed As Much As a Dinosaur.
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The world's largest bird — a newly identified species of elephant bird — weighed as much as a dinosaur when it strutted around Madagascar more than 1,000 years ago, a new study finds. 
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10 ft.
1.7k pounds.

This thing was a fortress.
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Wow, and I thought ostriches were large :O

Although, this one sounds like it would have been still more intimidating. It's called Dynamoterror, and it was a close relative of T. rex, discovered from an 80-million-year-old fossil in New Mexico: 

http://uk.businessinsider.com/discovered...or-2018-10

I hope @ Nick's pet tumbleweed wasn't too terrified by it :'( ...
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Wow, this art is beautiful.

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Indeed it is! Great job to him on that :D

Now, another new species of dinosaur has been discovered in Argentina. It's 110 million years old - which is strange, considering the area would have been desert at the time: 

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018...-argentina

I wonder how it got there :thinking: ?
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Trump has had several species named after him - and now, he has another one. This time, it's an amphibian that sticks its head in the sand :P

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-46614138
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