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Tag: Ankylosaurs

Palaeontology and Open Science roundup: July 23rd, 2018

protohedgehogOpen Science, Palaeontology

Welcome to your usual weekly roundup of interesting stuff that happened in the last week! Enjoy, and let me know if I’ve missed anything out. Previous week. Palaeontology News Xing et al: A mid-Cretaceous embryonic-to-neonate snake in amber from Myanmar. Wiersma and Irmis: A new southern Laramidian ankylosaurid, Akainacephalus johnsoni gen. et sp. nov., from the upper Campanian […]

Were dinosaurs the masters of social integration?

protohedgehogEcology, Evolution, Palaeontology, Zoology

This was originally posted at: http://blogs.egu.eu/palaeoblog/?p=996 Back in the Late Cretaceous, the USA was divided. Not politically, but by a vast continental sea called the Western Interior Seaway, splitting the continent into two separate landmasses. The western one of these, known as Laramidia, played host to some of the popular dinosaurs like Parasaurolophus, or ‘Elvis’ in […]