Dead Stuff Daily(ish) 01
Episode 1: NEW OLD DIATRYMA SPECIMEN!
1/22/20251 min read
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Gerald Mayr et al, Resurrecting the taxon Diatryma: A review of the giant flightless Eocene Gastornithiformes (Aves), Palaeontologia Electronica (2024). DOI: 10.26879/1438
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when is a crocodile not a crocodile apparently when it's actually a bird I dig dead stuff and this is dead stuff news apparently a fossilized crocodile skull that's been in the Gil tall collection for some 50 years was recently found to actually be a nearly complete skull of diota this is really cool cuz paleontologist only had one skull from them so far di tra was a 4 and 1/2t Tall terror bird that lived during the eosine and well people used to think that all these Terror birds were some kind of hyper carnivore it turns out they were probably actually herbivorous either way I wouldn't want to mess with it just look at that beak but this really goes to show how important it is to be looking through old collections