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New species of ancient Synodont 220 million years old

Ben Kligman, Ph.D. Illustrated by, Photoshop-created image of how Cataigidon Venetus might look. Department of Geology and Henna R. Student of the Kligman Department. Credit: Virginia Tech Virginia Tech College Ledge Science Ph.D. Bone fragments of rat-like animal remains found in Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park last year. The candidate …

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We’ve never seen such a dinosaur brain before

“Perhaps this change is related to a change in eating habits,” he said. “Carnivores generally need more cognitive abilities.” These details about the brains of bureaucrats are interesting because they are such early dinosaurs, said Lance Rance Whitmer, a paleontologist and professor of zoology at the University of Ohio who …

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