New species!

[Detective Osprey]

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!

[Kyng]

Wow, bright orange crocodiles?! I think I've seen it all now!

(Also, I've pinned this, since it's something we'll probably want to come back to every now and then )

[Detective Osprey]

Stunning Fossil Discovery Reveals a New Dinosaur With Iridescent Feathers
It may have been as bright as a hummingbird.
MICHELLE STARR
16 JAN 2018

(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.

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

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Holy crap. That's amazing.

[Detective Osprey]

Giant Pterosaur Sported 110 Teeth (and 4 Wicked Fangs)

August 13, 2018 | Article
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
 
July 17, 2018 | Article
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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[Detective Osprey]

This Was the World's Largest Bird. It Weighed As Much As a Dinosaur.
September 25, 2018 | Article
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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[Eremurus]

10 ft.
1.7k pounds.

This thing was a fortress.

[Kyng]

Wow, and I thought ostriches were large ! 

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 ...

[Detective Osprey]

Wow, this art is beautiful.

[Kyng]

Indeed it is! Great job to him on that . 

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 ?

[Kyng]

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 : 

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