''' AI model suggests ancient tracks attributed to dinosaurs were made by birds !
Tracks believed to be the work of small, scampering dinosaurs may have been made by birds, pushing back the date of the evolution of flight by 60 million years, scientists believe... '''
A 400-million-year-old plant creates water so weird it looks Alien
Researchers discovered that living horsetails act like natural distillation towers : producing bizarre oxygen isotope signatures more extreme than anything previously recorded on Earth—sometimes resembling meteorite water.
By tracing these isotopic shifts from the plant base to its tip, scientists unlocked a new way to decode ancient humidity and climate, using both modern plants and fossilized phytoliths that preserve isotopic clues for millions of years.
Before I make this post: Azhdarchoids & Azhdarchids WDYLM Cup and Paranormal RP isn't canceled. I will make the posts once The Early Jurassic Dinosaurs WDYLM Cup ends, and for Paranormal RP, I will make it once the idea and introduction is established.
Anyways, let's do this!
Anyone wondered which Early Jurassic Dinosaurs is the community favorite? Here in this WDYLM Cup, we will decide which one is the favorite!
Contestants:
Hettangian Dinosaurs:
Aardonyx
Aetonyx
Anchisaurus
Antetonirtus
Chinshakiangosaurus
Dracoraptor
Dracovenator
Eocursor
Gryponyx
Ignavusaurus
Irisosaurus
Laquintasaura
Ledumahadi
Lesothosaurus
Pulanesaura
Sarcosaurus
Sefapanosaurus
Tachiraptor
Wudingloong
Xingxiulong
Sinemurian Dinosaurs:
Abrictosaurus
Bienosaurus
Chuxingosauurs
Dornraptor
Eshanosaurus
Fabrosaurus
Fulengia
Gigantoscelus
Gongxianosaurus
Gryponyx
Gyposaurus
Jingshanosaurus
Lamplughsaura
Lufengosaurus
Lycorhinus
Magapnosaurus
Mussaurus
Pachysuchus
Pegostamax
Podokesaurus
Pradhania
Pulnesaura
Qianlong
Saltriovenator
Sarahsaurus
Sarcosaurus
Scelidosaurus
Scutellosaurus
Sinosaurus
Tatisaurus
Xixiposaurus
Yizhousaurus
Yuannosaurus
Yuxisaurus
Pliensbachian Dinosaurs
Archeocursor
Arcusaurus
Aristosaurus
"Coelophysis" kayentakatae
Cryolophosaurus
Dilophosaurus
Geranosaurus
Glacialisaurus
Hortalotarsus
Kayentavenator
Kotasaurus
Leonerasaurus
Leyesaurus
Lishulong
Ngwevu
Sanpasaurus
Sarahsaurus
Scelidosaurus
Segisaurus
Seitaad
Tonganosaurus
Yimenosaurus
Toracian Dinosaurs:
Amygdalodon
Asfaltovenator
Bagualia
Berberosaurus
Condorraptor
Dandakosaurus
Emausaurus
Eoabelisaurus
Menidens
Ohmdenosaurus
Patagosaurus
Perijasaurus
Pianitzkysaurus
Sanxiasaurus
Tazoudasaurus
Volkheimeria
Yunyangosaurus
Zizhongosaurus
Lived between these following Early Jurassic ages (Hettangian-Toracian):
Adeopapposaurus
Barapasaurus
Dromicosaurus
Heterodontosaurus
Huashanosaurus
Isanosaurus
Massospondylus
Panguraptor
Vulcanodon
Rounds will consist of:
Qualifying stage: A stage where contestants try to qualify for the main tournament. Easy.
Group Stage: Four contestants will fight for the top 2 spot.
R32 (Round of 32): The winner will get to the Round of 16.
R16 (Round of 16) The winner will advance to Quarter-Final.
Quarter-Final: Four contestants will fight for the top 1 spot.
Semi-Final: The Winner advances to the Final. The loser will go to the Third-Place matchup.
3rd Place matchup: The winner will get 3rd place.
Final: The match where people decide the winner.
Many contestants, but the winner shall be one! Who would it be?
https://www.sci.news/paleontology/anteavis-crurilongus-14286.html
https://novataxa.blogspot.com/2025/10/anteavis.html
''' Anteavis crurilongus roamed Earth during the Carnian age of the Late Triassic epoch, 231 to 226 million years ago.
This dinosaur was approximately 1.2 m (4 feet) in length and weighed about 8-9 kg.
The ancient species was an early-diverging theropod placed outside the dinosaur group Neotheropoda, but it had unexpectedly derived features previously thought to be exclusive to that group.
“It is one of the oldest and most primitive dinosaurs known so far,” said Dr. Ricardo Martínez from the Universidad Nacional de San Juan and his colleagues.
“The early diversification of dinosaurs produced a major ecological change in the terrestrial ecosystems, culminating with tetrapod assemblages dominated in abundance by dinosaurs by the Triassic/Jurassic boundary, 201 million years ago.”
Well, Mike's never getting that one back. If you want, post more hat pictures and maybe we'll do another vote.
Ankysareawesome chose this one, btw.
39 - 40 feet long | 11 - 12 meters ! -- Rex sized sauropod
''' Officially Named : Huashanosaurus qini
The new dinosaur species is estimated to have been around 12 m (39 feet) long. It lived in what is now China’s Guangxi autonomous region from the Early to Middle Jurassic, 200 to 162 million years ago.
'' Jurassic sauropods are well represented in China, especially in Yunnan, Sichuan, Chongqing and Xinjiang, with only a few localities known in Gansu, Ningxia, Anhui, Tibet and Guizhou... '' said lead author Dr. Jinyou Mo from the Natural History Museum of Guangxi and colleagues.
“In Guangxi, the Jurassic record of dinosaur fossils is poor, compared with the Cretaceous dinosaur fossil record.”
'' Wudingloong wui lived in what is now Yunnan, China, around 200 million years ago || Early Jurassic epoch ''
'' Wudingloong wui was a small- to medium-sized non-sauropodan member of Sauropodomorpha, one of the most successful dinosaurian groups with an almost global distribution, spanning from Antarctica to Greenland... ''
''' The discovery of Wudingloong wui provides further evidence that the southwestern China sauropodomorph assemblage is one of the most taxonomically diverse and morphologically disparate in the pre-Toarcian Early Jurassic worldwide, represented by various species from near the base of the Massopoda to non-sauropodan sauropodiforms. '''
The fossilized bones of Wudingloong wui were collected from Yubacun Formation theat Wande town in China’s Yunnan province.
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