National Geographic News, December 7, 2010 A shield-toothed horse-dragon
may sound like a mythical creature, but the newly described dinosaur
once roamed the U.S. West, a new study says. The 125-million-year-old
herbivore Hippodraco scutodensâ€"whose partial skull and skeleton
were unearthed in 2004 in eastern Utahâ€"has a long, low skull like
a horse's and a mouth filled with shield-shaped teeth. Hippo and draco
are Latin for "horse" and "dragon," respectively, while scutum means
"oblong shield" and dens means "tooth." Also revealed recently, fossils
of another newly described species from the same time period,
Iguanacolossus fortis, were found in 2005 not far from Hippodraco.
URL: http://tinyurl.com/38a3pz8
<http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/12/101207-new-dinosaurs-utah-fossils-horse-dragon-science/>
Scientists announce discovery of first horned dinosaur from South Korea
EurekAlert [USA], 6-Dec-2010
Scientists from South Korea, the United States and Japan analyzed fossil
evidence found in South Korea and published research describing a new
horned dinosaur. The newly identified genus, Koreaceratops
hwaseongensis, lived about 103 million years ago during the late Early
Cretaceous period. The specimen is the first ceratopsian dinosaur from
the Korean peninsula. The partial skeleton includes a significant
portion of the animal's backbone, hip bone, partial hind limbs and a
nearly complete tail. Results from the analysis of the specimen were
published in the 18 November 2010 online edition of the journal
Naturwissenchaften: The Science of Nature. The Koreaceratops
hwaseongensis is named for Korea and Hwaseong City, which yielded the
fossil. It was discovered in 2008 in a block of rock along the Tando
Basin reservoir. It is one of the first articulated dinosaurs known from
Korea.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-12/cmon-sad120610.php
New species of Pleistocene stork found on 'hobbit' island
PhysOrg.com [USA], December 8, 2010
Fossils of a giant Pleistocene stork found on Flores island, Indonesia,
belong to a new species according to scientists. The now extinct bird
was probably flightless, and lived on the same island as Homo
floresiensis, a small hominin species that has come to be nicknamed the
"hobbit". The fragments of fossilized bones were found by Dr. Hanneke
Meijer of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in
Washington DC and her colleague Rokus Due of the National Center for
Archaeology in Jakarta, Indonesia. Dr. Meijer is a paleontologist
specializing in fossils of birds found on islands. The giant stork
fossils were located in sediments dated at 20-50,000 years old in the
Liang Bua cave in which H.floresiensis was found in 2004.
http://tinyurl.com/236rfj3
<http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-12-species-pleistocene-stork-hobbit-island.html>
Bizarre fossil crocodile dispels notion that these reptiles are static
and unchanging
PhysOrg.com [USA], December 8, 2010
We all know that crocodiles are reptiles with long snouts, conical
teeth, strong jaws and long tails. But according to researchers at Stony
Brook University in New York, we don't know what we thought we knew.
Rather, some crocodiles possessed a dazzling array of adaptations that
resulted in unique and sometimes bizarre anatomy, including blunt,
pug-nosed snouts, pudgy bodies and short tails. These anatomical
adaptations of the incredibly diverse group of reptiles called
notosuchian crocodyliforms are brilliantly illuminated in a new Memoir
of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. This massive, richly
illustrated volume, edited by Drs. David W. Krause and Nathan J. Kley of
Stony Brook, clearly dispels the notion that crocodiles are static,
unchanging "living fossils."
http://tinyurl.com/25th4xz
<http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-12-bizarre-fossil-crocodile-dispels-notion.html>
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