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The Jaw of a Pliosaur

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Dinosaur Hide for Breakfast ☹️☹️☹️

Heritage · Society · Palaeontology · Nature

Russian citizen carried two dinosaur bone fragments from Mongolia through Kyakhta customs

"A citizen of Russia travelling from Mongolia to Russia through the Kyakhta MAPP customs post was carrying in his accompanied baggage two fragments of petrified bone tissue with a total weight of 2.45 kilograms. Experts determined that, by their morphological features, the fossils are fragments of a dinosaur

Museums · Observations · Science · Palaeontology

How Museum Skeletons Were Reconstructed from One or Two Bone Fragments

Incidentally, most skeletons on display in museums are reconstructed from one or two fragments. The originally supposed shape of these models depended solely on the imagination of their author: the first palaeontologists dreamed up improbable Loch Ness monsters and flying brontosaurs. Not infrequently, when checked, exhibits created 100 years ago

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a reconstructed skeleton of Cacops

Observations · Palaeontology · Nature · Humour

Cacops, regarded as one of the first amphibians, and how it escaped larger predators

Kakops lived at the end of the Cretaceous and dwelt on the banks of watercourses. Of interest because he is reckoned one of the first amphibians. Short legs and a short tail helped him to hop smartly into the water whenever larger predators drew near. Little is known of him;