Artist’s impression Fona Herzogae.
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A new dinosaur has been discovered in the field of paleontology. This dinosaur was a burrowing dinosaur.
Discovered in Utah by researchers and paleontologists from North Carolina State University Fona Herzogae It is a small herbivorous dinosaur that lived during the Cenomanian period (approximately 100 to 66 million years ago).
“If you put a Komodo dragon’s tail on the back of an ostrich, Fona “What would it have looked like?” researcher Habib Abrahami told NPR.
Abrahami is a doctoral student at North Carolina State University and was part of the team that identified the new dinosaur. They published their work in the journal Science. Anatomy record this month.
Instead of thinking about how big it is Fona Avrahami said it might make more sense to consider how long she might have lived.
“It was a small dinosaur, about seven feet long, and would have been as long as Shaq if it had been lying down,” Abrahami said.
Avrahami and his team also think that the new dinosaur was a burrowing species that spent at least part of its life underground.
He said paleontologists know very little about small, plant-eating dinosaurs such as: Fona. That’s why she’s so important in figuring out how subterranean dinosaurs lived, ate and had social lives.
“Their family tree is basically a giant black hole in paleontological knowledge,” Abrahami said.
Habib Avrahami holds a 3D print Fona skull.
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The researchers were also involved in naming it. Fona Dinosaurs. Many dinosaur species are named according to Anglo-Saxon conventions, but Fona It was named after Guam, where Abraham’s mother is from.
“name Fona “This comes from our ancestral creation myth, which is about the spirits of brothers and sisters,” Abrahami said.
“Fona is the younger sister and Pontan is the older brother. When Pontan dies, Fona uses parts of his body to create pieces of the universe and pieces of the island. Finally, she herself dies and becomes a fossil, and from her petrified body the Chamorros are born.”
“This story is Fona Because it’s a dinosaur Fona “Because it was found in a burrow, it is believed to have been preserved in the soil, likely due to its strong family ties.”
Abraham hopes that his team’s discovery will shed more light on this tiny, burrowing dinosaur and the life it led millions of years ago.
