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Measured drawing of the “double sickle-claw” dinosaur Balaur bondoc from late Cretaceous Romania, compared to a present-day dog. This dinosaur was interpreted as a strange relative of Velociraptor or Deinonychus, but it is now thought to be a unique relative of early birds.

A 360-degree panorama in the middle of a flock of Nyctosaurus gracilis, a pterosaur from Late Cretaceous North America.

This is one huge painting, well of 30,000 pixels wide, with layers that move at different rates to give the illusion of parallax. If your player doesn’t stutter, it makes a semaless loop. Painted in Photoshop, and animated in After Effects.

This GIF shows how the toucan releases heat using its beak to cool itself off.

Araras-canindé (by jquental)

Germanodactylus cristatus inspecting some rock pools in Late Jurassic Germany.

Largest Dinosaur Known Found in Argentina

by Virginia Avalos

Paleontologists in Argentina’s remote Patagonia region have discovered fossils of what may be the largest dinosaur ever, amid a vast cache of fossils that could shed light on prehistoric life.

The creature is believed to be a new species of Titanosaur, a long-necked, long-tailed sauropod that walked on four legs and lived some 90 million years ago in the Cretaceous Period.

Researchers say the plant-eating dinosaur weighed the equivalent of more than 14 African elephants, or about 100 tonnes, and stretched up to 40 meters (130 feet) in length.The previous record holder, also in Argentina, the Argentinosaurus, was estimated to measure 36.6 meters long…

(read more: PhysOrg)