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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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'Like a gopher, crocodile, and ostrich' combined: NC paleontologists discover new burrowing dinosaur (www.wunc.org)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I don't know if that artistic rendition - with thick legs, flat arms, and odd hairs - is beautiful or ugly. Probably both.

This is specially interesting because, to my knowledge, we barely know about dinosaur species built their own niches, like this. At most we know how they adapted themselves to already existing ones.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think it makes a good overall visual description but personally I believe the actual creature must have been more pleasant to look at.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

I believe the actual creature must have been more pleasant to look at.

Agreed - they were probably way cuter.