A team of researchers has unearthed multiple skeletons of a new species of feathered, two-fingered, toothless dinosaur buried under the sands of the Gobi Desert in Mongolia for 68 million years. Dubbed as Oxoco Averson, this remarkable creature is considered a key ‘missing link’ and is already helping to demastify dinosaur evolution.
Two digits and a parrot’s beak
The discovery and subsequent analysis of a group of new dinosaur skeletons has helped fill a lot of space in the dinosaur evolutionary tree. While many dinosaurs have been found in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia, this is a special one for some reason.
Achieving a height of more than two meters, this dinosaur weighed about 45 kilograms (99 pounds). Oxoco feeds plants and animals with its huge, toothless beak, much like a parrot. In this strange-looking ancient creature, like the T-Rex, two digits came out of each hand.
The aspect of the discovery that the scientists found most interesting was that this fossil skeleton, the first tangible evidence of numerical loss in the three-finger oviraptar family, was an adaptation that researchers say the species spread over vast distances. Cretaceous.
This newly discovered species has only two fingers and no teeth, as can be seen in this skeletal anatomy of Oscoco Averson. ( Gregory F. Funston et al. Al / CC BY-SA 4.0)
Underworld the F Desert Raptors
The description of the dinosaurs came from a new study published in the Royal Society Open Science Journal by Dr. Gregory Fonston of the University of Denberg’s School of Geosciences in Canada. According to the paper, it was the fact that this animal had two digits that “revealed some unexpected trends.” This has already helped answer the question of why the Oviraptors were so diverse before the mass-extinction event, which eventually led to the extinction of the dinosaurs.
The Gobi Desert is a vast brushland region in East Asia, covering parts of northern and northeastern China and southern Mongolia, and is significant in history as hosting some of the most important trading stations on the Silk Road. However, accordingly Amicus Mongolia Below the scattered layers of early medieval archeology, many world-famous fossils have been found in the Gobi Desert, including “two fighting dinosaurs (Velosiraptor and protoseratops)”, and “dense infant dinosaurs – protoseratops”. “Oviraptorosaur lays its eggs”, “Giant carnivorous Tarabosaur and its offspring” and “Egg fossils and eggs of many different dinosaur species.” The Oviraptor, meaning “egg-looter”, is a genus of small Mongolian theropod dinosaurs that resembled the most visible bird of the Thropod dinosaur and had three fingers.
Image of a skeleton found in the Gobi Desert. In the lower figure, different colors represent different individuals. ( Gregory F. Funston et al. Al / CC by-SA 4.0)
Gobi as the ancient dinosaur generator
Probably one of the most interesting dinosaur facts, provided by Amicus Mongolia That is, if one were to consider dinosaur research on a single planet over the past decade, it is estimated that “more than 400 dinosaur genera, or 1/1 / (one-fifth) of the 400 dinosaur genera known to science, Mongolian Have been found in Gobi.
However, no matter how fierce the competition, this new species is an exceptionally rare and valuable discovery. Thanks to her two digits, so Cossoco Everson is believed to have adapted to her diet and lifestyle, which ultimately increased her breeding success. The research team also concluded that these prehistoric creatures were social animals when they were young, as excavators discovered a group of four juveniles together.
A team of scientists studied the slow decline and eventual loss of the third finger of dinosaurs in the evolutionary history of the ovary, and concluded that the hands and arms of the newly discovered creatures “changed dramatically with the migration to new geographic areas, especially now North America and the Gobi Desert.” While trying to answer Why The bird-like creature lost its third finger, with researchers suspecting that this may have been in relation to its invasion or changes in structure patterns, performance requirements, or other social habits.
Top Image: Oxco Averson Impressions of an artist of dinosaurs. Source: ( Michael Scrapnick / University of Edinburgh)
By Ashley Covey
.
