Cosima Niehaus doesn't talk about Clone Club (geekmonkey) wrote in valarnet, @ 2019-06-04 15:02:00 |
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Entry tags: | armin arlert, chase stein (talkback), cosima niehaus, ozma |
Okay, I come to everyone with yet another new science fact for the day that's actually pretty cool in more than one way. A new species of dinosaur has been discovered in an opal mine Australia. The bones were discovered about thirty years ago in an opal mine, but weren't able to be scientifically studied until the past couple years.
Now, the fascinating thing here is that not only did they find remains of a single dinosaurs from a previously unknown species, but they found an entire herd consisting of multiple species of dinosaurs! Finding dinosaur fossils in this number is almost unheard of. Also because the fossils were found in an opal mine, some of them have become opalized, and the skeleton that they've been able to piece together for the new species of dinosaur is the most complete opalized dinosaur skeleton in the world. I really want to see this skeleton because I'm certain it's beyond beautiful to see in person. Also, new dinosaur!
And for those curious, the new dinosaur was an herbivore.
I know this is like the millionth post I've made regarding dinosaurs, but I'm not going to apologize for being a huge dinosaur geek. I loved them when I was a kid, and the books, and later movies, of Jurassic Park are what inspired me to go into the sciences in the first place.