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Dwarf Killer Whale Discovered In Antarctica

Interesting how they are even discovering new whales.

http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/dwrfkllrwhale/

It seems that these guys can swim and walk around.

http://www.livescience.com/animals/071123-new-anemones.html

And the discoveries continue...

http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/goa-new/

This is an interesting little discovery I came across in the news today... discovered on a ranch in North Dakota by a teenager... What a thing to find in your own backyard...

Partially mummified dinosaur revealed
December 03

A Partially mummified hadrosaur discovered by a teenager in North Dakota may be the most complete dinosaur ever found, with intact skin that shows evidence of stripes and perhaps soft tissue, researchers said today. Enough of the animal remains to show it ran quickly and was far more muscular than scientists believed such dinosaurs were.

'It's sort of King Tut meets T Rex,' paleontologist Phil Manning of the University of Manchester in Britain said. The creature is fossilised, with the skin and bone turned to stone. But unlike most dinosaur fossils, tissues are preserved as well. This includes large expanses of the animal's skin, with clear remains of scales.

'This is not a skin impression. This is fossilised skin,' Dr Manning said. 'When you run your hands over this dinosaur's skin, this is the closest you are going to get to touching a real dinosaur, ever.'

The remains of the hadrosaur, dubbed Dakota, were found in 2000 by Tyler Lyson, then 17, on his uncle's ranch in North Dakota. The hadrosaur, a plant-eating dinosaur that walked on two legs, lived 67 million years ago, during the late Cretaceous Period.

Mr Lyson contacted Dr Manning. Dr Manning had his team remove the monstrous specimen almost intact, with just the tail in a separate block. It weighed close to 4500kg.

They persuaded Boeing and NASA to use a huge CT scanner usually used to scan space shuttle parts to look at the fossil. The dense fossil had taken months to scan, Dr Manning said. 'We will know in the next few days if the head is in there,' he said. The tail piece turned up some surprises. The animal's back end is 25 per cent larger than previously thought.

Locomotor biologist Bill Sellers of the University of Manchester used a computer program to reconstruct how the hadrosaur would have moved and came up with a picture of an animal that walked not upright, but with its head low to the ground and forearms almost touching.

The strong muscles connecting its upper legs to its tail would have allowed it to run at speeds of up to 45km/h, well ahead of its predator, Tyrannosaurus rex. Patterns in the scales resemble those associated with skin colour changes in lizards. This provided the strongest evidence yet that the animal had stripes, Dr Manning said.

The researchers are looking for preserved proteins. They had some results that had been offered to a scientific journal, Dr Manning said. 'It's contentious. We say we are finding soft tissues where people previously have not looked,' he said.

They also found a second fossil, one that Dr Manning called the 'the hand of doom'. The clawed foot belongs to a species of crocodile that may have been dining on Dakota soon after it died in a riverbed. 'It could have crawled up the back passage of the animal, went to get the guts and ended up stuck,' Dr Manning said

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22860235-23109,00.html

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Woah Dingo thats really interesting....

Here is an interesting new pigeon discovery.
http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/green-pigeon/

Green Pigeon: New Singapore Species?Posted by: Loren Coleman on January 11th, 2008



A recent new find in Asia must be understood in the larger context of how the birding community discusses “new species.” Not all talk of “new discoveries” of birds are of the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker variety or level of effort, but most are of the talk of ranges, new life list records, and interlopers.

As a heads-up to how insiders in birding “see the world,” there are ongoing discussions of when “new species” appear in areas they have not been seen before. This has nothing to do with the discovery of “new species,” per se, but does sometimes generate a bit of a buzz in the birding media about “new species discoveries,” especially if there are good visuals to go with the story.

Take, for example, the “new bird” recently found in Jurong.

It is a case of a photographer documenting a new species for Singapore.



The images of this bird were posted on Avian Watch Asia, and represent a new record by Dr. Jonathan Cheah Weng Kwong at the Japanese Garden in Jurong, Singapore, on December 22, 2007. A lone bird was seen on a salam tree (Syzygium polyantha), quietly eating the tree’s fruits for about 15 minutes before it flew off.

Birder Albert Low then tentatively identified the bird as a possible Orange-breasted Green-pigeon (Treron bicincta). This species, known from Sri Lanka, eastern Java, and northern Bali, has been recorded as far south as Port Dickson in Penisular Malaysia. Low felt, just like the Jambu Fruit Dove (Ptilinopus jambu), this bird could occur in Singapore, particularly during big figging seasons. He appears to have been correct.

This is the first sighting of the Orange-breasted Green Pigeon in Singapore, a male bird. The bird looks like the Pink-necked Green Pigeon (Treron vernans), except that the forehead, face and throat are greenish yellow. Also, the mauve-pink upper breast area is smaller and does not extend to the neck. The outer feathers of the tail is blackish, with a broad pale grey subterminal band.

Sources:

1. Anon, “Orange-breasted Green Pigeon sighted in Jurong”: http://besgroup.talfrynature.com/?p=2471
2. Baptista, L. F., Trail, P. W. & Horblit, H. M. (1997). Family Columbidae (pigeons and doves). Pp. 60-245 in: del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A. & Sargatal, J. eds. Handbook of the birds of the world. Vol. 4. Sandgrouse to Cuckoos. Barcelona: Lynx Editions.
3. Gibbs, D., Barnes, E. & Cox, J. (2001). Pigeons and doves: A guide to the pigeons and doves of the world. Sussex: Pica Press.
4. Wells, D.R. (1999). The birds of the Thai-Malay Peninsular. Vol. I, Non-passerines. Academic Press, London.
5. Additional information from Dr. Jonathan Cheah Weng Kwong and Albert Low; images by Johathan.

This entry was posted on Friday, January 11th, 2008 at 3:39 pm and is filed under CryptoZoo News, Breaking News, Cryptotourism, Cryptozoologists, Cryptozoology, Eyewitness Accounts, Ivory-Billed Woodpecker, New Species. You can follow responses via our RSS

I really wish they would post a photo of the Dino.

Seems that they have discovered a new species of primate and have a good photo of it.

http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/cacajao-ayresii-2/

New Brazilian Species Discovered

Here are some more new animal discoveries.

http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/tocantins-sp/

Just shows how many new species there are, if in just 30 days they found 14 new ones....

Two New Phrynopus Frogs Discovered

http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/phrynopus2/

Here is a link to another new species of birds discovered, in China.

http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/sp-nonggang/

Here is a new species of Goliath grouper discovered in the Pacific.

http://www.livescience.com/animals/080821-...th-grouper.html