TTDD. Throwback Thursday Dinosaur Day! (if you thought you knew - TopicsExpress



          

TTDD. Throwback Thursday Dinosaur Day! (if you thought you knew Dinosaurs, Think Again). One of the strangest hybrid of many dino characteristic that, until recently, baffled scientists from back in the 1950s, who thought they found the fossils of an enormous turtle. ALXASAURUS was a strange combination of a sloth and a turkey. The skull was similar to a saurapod, with a beak that had deep set, leaf shaped teeth. Its T-Rex like feet supported its pot belly structure with a pubis bone that pointed backwards, like birds. Its short forelimbs were capped by claws over 3 ft in length. All debates were put to rest in the 1990s, when more complete fossils confirmed that these animals were therapods, indicated by a 3 digit, bird like wrist, a therapod brain, and body covered with feathers.
Posted on: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 12:56:09 +0000

Trending Topics



Recently Viewed Topics




© 2015