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 A new species of dinosaur related to Velociraptor and characterized by having curved claws like scythes has been discovered in the Chinese region of Inner Mongolia, according to an article in the journal Zootaxa.
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 The mass extinction that wiped out the great ancestors of crocodiles and allowed the expansion of the dinosaurs of the Jurassic was probably due to major volcanic eruptions and the resulting rapid climate change, according to a study by Brown University in Providence (USA) . The study results are published in the online edition of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences’ (PNAS).
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 For about 65 million years, a large percentage of vegetables and animals suddenly became extinct. It was late Cretaceous period and there are several theories. Some scientists attribute this event to a gradual process that led to selective extinction. Others assert that a catastrophe like the fall of an asteroid that caused a mass extinction of these species.
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Jose Luis Sanz. Author of 13 books about dinosaurs and lecturer in Spain, Argentina, USA, Portugal, France, China and Tunisia, Jose Luis Sanz presents these giants that both fascinate and form part of popular culture. And it does between references to the Simpson’s and the movies.
- When they began to lure the dinosaurs?
“In the late 50s with the film Beautiful ancient times, which is a monster who arrives in New York and starts eating people, like the dinosaurs that were fledged. I started looking around my bones home Scoria. I found, although a good collection of fossils. He was 10.
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A study by the University of Zaragoza (UNIZAR) has applied for the first time in Spain, a novel 3D visualization system to see the inside of a small fossil echinoderm of 510 million years ago found in the Natural Park Moncayo.
 The benefits of this methodology are beyond the face of destructive techniques applied so far to access and study what the shells, bones rock or hidden.
This new method of penetration into the interior of the fossil has been possible thanks to collaboration with researchers at Imperial College London, a center that offers technology for high resolution, superior even to that which applies in computed tomography (CT or scanner ) in human diagnostics.
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