US EditionScientists Solve the Mystery of Europe's Missing Dinosaurs. Spoiler Alert! They Were Never Actually Missing
New CT scans and fossil analysis reveal multiple ceratopsian species in Europe, correcting decades of misidentifications by paleontologists, researchers report in Nature.
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Scientists solve the mystery of Europe's missing dinosaurs. Spoiler alert! They were never actually missing
Ceratopsians were horned, beaked dinosaurs that once stomped their way all over North America and Asia during the Late Cretaceous period, about 80 million years ago. Their abundance in the fossil records of these continents, which were connected by land bridges and island chains near Europe (an island archipelago at the time), suggests they should also have roamed the European continent.
Based on the finds found in Bakony, Attila and his team proved that relatives of Triceratops were widespread and diverse in Europe. Based on their results, hundreds of years of fossil material must be re-examined.
The discovery rewrites the evolutionary history of Eurasian dinosaurs. A dinosaur fossil discovered in Hungary may prove that horned dinosaurs similar to Triceratops, which became iconic thanks to Jurassic Park, also lived in Europe.
A unique dinosaur skull has been discovered at the Iharkút dinosaur site in Hungary. According to the researchers' study, the newly identified prehistoric reptile belongs to the Ajkaceratops kozma species and may have lived about 85 million years ago, during the Late Cretaceous period, when Europe was not a continuous landmass, but a mosaic of islands located on the edge of the Tethys Sea. Ajkaceratops rewrites the evolutionary history of Eurasi…
A Hungarian discovery could rewrite everything we thought about dinosaurs - new traces have been found in Iharkút.
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