In Depth        Palaeobalaena was a primitive baleen whale that lived in the waters around South America during the Miocene. Further Reading -†‬Patagonia resto de un antiguo continente hoy sumerjido.†‬-†‬Contributions al Estudio de las Collecciones del Museo Antropologico y Arqueologico†‬1882:1-37.†‬-†‬F.†‬P.†‬Moreno†‬-†‬1882.
In Depth        Although around eight to ten meters long in life,†‬Lirainosaurus was still pretty small for a titanosaur.†‬However,†‬while the fossils of several individuals have been found,†‬and from most parts of the skeleton,†‬these remains are usually very fragmentary.†‬The fossils that are known indicate that Lirainosaurus was a fairly gracile†(‬lightly … Read more
In Depth        Rhaeticosaurus is a genus of plesiosaur that lived in the seas of what is now Europe during the late Triassic.†Further Reading -†‬A Triassic plesiosaurian skeleton and bone histology inform on evolution of a unique body plan.†‬-†‬Science Advances.†‬3†(‬12â€)‬:†‬e1701144.†‬-†‬Tanja Wintrich,†‬Shoji Hayashi,†‬Alexandra Houssaye,†‬Yasuhisa Nakajima†… Read more
In Depth        Ruehleia was a sauropodomorph,†‬the group of dinosaurs that were ancestral to the huge quadrupedal†‬sauropods that would begin to appear and diversify during the Jurassic.†‬As a prosauropod,†‬Ruehleia was still easily able to get about upon just the hind legs,†‬though it quite possibly went down on all fours during feeding … Read more