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Diplodocus, Long Thought Exclusively American, Turns Up in Spain

Diplodocus, Long Thought Exclusively American, Turns Up in Spain

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Comments (34)

  • notorandit
    According to latest executive order, Spain has been renamed "Spanish Peninsula of America". So Diplodocus keeps being exclusively American.
  • hackyhacky
    > Diplodocus, Long Thought Exclusively American, Turns Up in SpainAnother example of quality American production moving overseas. Globalization will be the end of us
  • WCSTombs
    Apparently I'm a bit slow today, because my brain started completing the headline as "Diplodocus, Long Thought Extinct, ..." before my eyes could finish reading it.> The animal’s fossilized remains — 14 well-preserved tail vertebrae and several chevron bones — were unearthed at the La Tejería site near the city of El Castellar in the Spanish province of Teruel.According to Wikipedia (if I'm reading correctly), the chevron bones are also part of the tail [1]. It's pretty cool how such a small part of the skeleton can carry so much information![1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haemal_arch
  • gus_massa
    > The Spanish Diplodocus lived roughly 150 million years ago near the end of the Jurassic period.> [...]> According to the team, the presence of Diplodocus in Iberia offers strong evidence that dinosaurs moved between North America and Europe during that era, likely crossing temporary land bridges that appeared as the proto-North Atlantic Ocean periodically receded.I want a map! I found this: https://www.sciencephoto.com/media/167017/view Is it the correct map? Is there a land (ice?) bridge between Newfoundland and Portugal? Am I interpreting it correctly?
  • embedding-shape
    Original article (in Spanish), from the source itself: https://fundaciondinopolis.org/un-descubrimiento-paleontolog...
  • seanhunter
    How do we know it wasn’t an American diplodocus on a gap year trip to Europe?
  • ta93754829
    Is "American" a nationality where maybe "North American" a geography? I don't think Diplodocus has US citizenship...
  • lukaszkorecki
    Diplodocus?
  • protocolture
    Even the dinosaurs are abandoning the USA.
  • Arubis
    This probably is the most succinct way to write the title, but assigning nationality to dinosaurs is _weird_.