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The Basal Nodosaurid Ankylosaur Europelta carbonensis n. gen., n. sp. from the Lower Cretaceous (Lower Albian) Escucha Formation of Northeastern Spain

James I. Kirkland, Luis Alcalá, Mark A. Loewen, Eduardo Espílez, Luis Mampel, Jelle P. Wiersma

published 02 Dec 2013


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Cockroaches Probably Cleaned Up after Dinosaurs

Peter Vršanský, Thomas van de Kamp, Dany Azar, Alexander Prokin, L'ubomír Vidlička, Patrik Vagovič

published 04 Dec 2013


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Cavemen Were Better at Depicting Quadruped Walking than Modern Artists: Erroneous Walking Illustrations in the Fine Arts from Prehistory to Today

Gabor Horvath, Etelka Farkas, Ildiko Boncz, Miklos Blaho, Gyorgy Kriska

published 05 Dec 2012

Pedal Claw Curvature in Birds, Lizards and Mesozoic Dinosaurs – Complicated Categories and Compensating for Mass-Specific and Phylogenetic Control

Aleksandra V. Birn-Jeffery, Charlotte E. Miller, Darren Naish, Emily J. Rayfield, David W. E. Hone

published 05 Dec 2012

Large-Diameter Burrows of the Triassic Ischigualasto Basin, NW Argentina: Paleoecological and Paleoenvironmental Implications

Carina E. Colombi, Eliana Fernández, Brian S. Currie, Oscar A. Alcober, Ricardo Martínez, Gustavo Correa

published 05 Dec 2012


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Crocodilian Nest in a Late Cretaceous Sauropod Hatchery from the Type Lameta Ghat Locality, Jabalpur, India

Rahul Srivastava, Rajeev Patnaik, U. K. Shukla, Ashok Sahni

published 07 Dec 2015


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Osteological and Soft-Tissue Evidence for Pneumatization in the Cervical Column of the Ostrich (Struthio camelus) and Observations on the Vertebral Columns of Non-Volant, Semi-Volant and Semi-Aquatic Birds

Naomi E. Apostolaki, Emily J. Rayfield, Paul M. Barrett

published 09 Dec 2015


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Absence of Suction Feeding Ichthyosaurs and Its Implications for Triassic Mesopelagic Paleoecology

Ryosuke Motani, Cheng Ji, Taketeru Tomita, Neil Kelley, Erin Maxwell, Da-yong Jiang, Paul Martin Sander

published 11 Dec 2013


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Tetradactyl Footprints of an Unknown Affinity Theropod Dinosaur from the Upper Jurassic of Morocco

Jaouad Nouri, Ignacio Díaz-Martínez, Félix Pérez-Lorente

published 13 Dec 2011


Portal:Paleontology/On this day/December 14

Reproductive Biology and Its Impact on Body Size: Comparative Analysis of Mammalian, Avian and Dinosaurian Reproduction

Jan Werner, Eva Maria Griebeler

published 14 Dec 2011

‘Nedoceratops’: An Example of a Transitional Morphology

John B. Scannella, John R. Horner

published 14 Dec 2011

The Predatory Ecology of Deinonychus and the Origin of Flapping in Birds

Denver W. Fowler, Elizabeth A. Freedman, John B. Scannella, Robert E. Kambic

published 14 Dec 2011


Portal:Paleontology/On this day/December 15

A New Troodontid Theropod Dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of Utah

Phil Senter, James I. Kirkland, John Bird, Jeff A. Bartlett

published 15 Dec 2010


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Revisiting the Estimation of Dinosaur Growth Rates

Nathan P. Myhrvold

published 16 Dec 2013

Resting Orientations of Dinosaur Scapulae and Forelimbs: A Numerical Analysis, with Implications for Reconstructions and Museum Mounts

Phil Senter, James H. Robins

published 16 Dec 2015


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Vertebral Pneumaticity in the Ornithomimosaur Archaeornithomimus (Dinosauria: Theropoda) Revealed by Computed Tomography Imaging and Reappraisal of Axial Pneumaticity in Ornithomimosauria

Akinobu Watanabe, Maria Eugenia Leone Gold, Stephen L. Brusatte, Roger B. J. Benson, Jonah Choiniere, Amy Davidson, Mark A. Norell

published 18 Dec 2015


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The First Freshwater Mosasauroid (Upper Cretaceous, Hungary) and a New Clade of Basal Mosasauroids

László Makádi, Michael W. Caldwell, Attila Ősi

published 19 Dec 2012

Body Size Distribution of the Dinosaurs

Eoin J. O’Gorman, David W. E. Hone

published 19 Dec 2012

The Endocranial Anatomy of Therizinosauria and Its Implications for Sensory and Cognitive Function

Stephan Lautenschlager, Emily J. Rayfield, Perle Altangerel, Lindsay E. Zanno, Lawrence M. Witmer

published 19 Dec 2012


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A New Leptoceratopsid (Ornithischia, Ceratopsia) with a Unique Ischium from the Upper Cretaceous of Shandong Province, China

Yiming He, Peter J. Makovicky, Kebai Wang, Shuqing Chen, Corwin Sullivan, Fenglu Han, Xing Xu

published 23 Dec 2015


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First Dinosaurs from Saudi Arabia

Benjamin P. Kear, Thomas H. Rich, Patricia Vickers-Rich, Mohammed A. Ali, Yahya A. Al-Mufarreh, Adel H. Matari, Abdu M. Al-Massari, Abdulaziz H. Nasser, Yousry Attia, Mohammed A. Halawani

published 26 Dec 2013


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A New Basal Hadrosauroid Dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Khok Kruat Formation in Nakhon Ratchasima Province, Northeastern Thailand

Masateru Shibata, Pratueng Jintasakul, Yoichi Azuma, Hai-Lu You

published 30 Dec 2015


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