Coelurosauravus was not related to the modern "flying dragon" Draco lizard, but both independently developed gliding "wings" from structures not part of a limb. How many times had this bodyplan evolved independently, aside from these two examples? Did any other reptiles experiment with similar gliding?

So here's the pitch, I wanted to become a paleontologist, but first I needed to find out what degrees to achieve. I'm currently planning on going to Toronto Metropolitan University's biology program and getting a BSc their, and then get a masters in Ecology and Evolutionary biology at University of Toronto's Mississauga campus. Am I making the right choice?

It might be a dumb question. Argentinosaurus, Dreadnoughtus, Puertasaurus, etc.. None of them have skull fossils. But how did paleontologists find out how their skull look like?

Got lucky and found this guy near Indianapolis in the Borden Group. Anybody know what specie it may be? Thanks!

Within dinosaurs we have only: sauropod, theropod, ornithopod, marginocephale and thyreophorian. All species in this 5 main clades have the same morphology and looks practically identical

To compare with mammals, mammals include: cats, dogs, bears, rhinos, hippos, elephants, giraffes, primates, boses, whales, kangaroos, mouses, pigs and a lot more... (All of them are different)

Are dinosaurs really were so poor-various? Is it possible to discover others groups of dinosaurs dissimilar to anothers with unique morphology?

Or maybe we already have material and bones of new types of dinosaurs, but can't identify them?

A whole thing is going down in r/dinosaurs, and it looks like the subreddit is dying, so we're probably gonna see a lot of the posters from thst subreddit come here.

https://www.palaeocast.com/cerney-wick/

In 2017, the femur of a mammoth was discovered by Sally and Neville Hollingworth in a commercial gravel quarry close to the village of Cerney Wick, on the Gloucestershire/Wiltshire border in England. Subsequent exploration of this site yielded further remains of Pleistocene megafauna including horses, bison, hyena and elk, as well as Neanderthal hand tools.

In the following years, the excavations at Cerney Wick expanded in scope into what is now the largest palaeontological dig in the UK. The potential for public interest in the site and its finds was quickly realised and the documentary ‘Attenborough and the Mammoth Graveyard’ was produced by Windfall Films for the BBC in 2021. Now, the continuing recovery of fossil content, and a better understanding of the environment in which the remains were preserved, are helping to paint a progressively more detailed picture of this exciting locality.

In this episode we’re joined by both Sally and Nev as we discuss their mammoth discovery and examine the complex geology of the site with its interplay of Jurassic and Pleistocene sediments. Finally, we reflect upon the dig’s relationship with the quarry’s commercial owners and the numerous volunteers required for the work.

We’ve been granted access to the site, allowing us to record media from within the field. Over the coming weeks, we will add new multimedia-rich posts featuring videos of the excavations, pictures of the finds and interviews with various people at the dig.

I wanna do it for my next vacation

To me, the best guesses I have would be that they would make it so that when the dinosaurs got the massive blow, they (non avian dinosaurs) and many others weren't coming back the way they did back during the Triassic-Jurassic event. Lots of things are surprisingly resilient, it took the Permian extinction to kill off the trilobites, and dinosaurs are so diverse, as are many other lifeforms, that it seems that the volcanism would provide an additional filter for things to have to survive, not as the main killer.

Is that consistent at all with what you know of?