By tetrapodzoology on December 23, 2009.
In time-honoured fashion, once more it s time to wish you all best Christmas wishes and share with you my digital Christmas card . though if you re a regular correspondent or one of my Facebook friends you ll already have seen it, sorry.
A larger version is available on request. You ll note a random assortment of real and not-so-real tetrapods.
Qilin parungulatus comes from this article,
Anachrodactylus is explained here, and the idea that
Deinocheirus might have been an arboreal slothosaur is discussed here (the idea is certainly erroneous, by the way). The giant pongine is, obviously, just a re-sized version of the big orangutan drawing, but you could pretend that it depicts
Paleontologists Unearth Giant Dinosaur Fossils That Could Belong to Largest Land Creature Ever Known
Paleontologists have uncovered the fossilized remains of a 98-million-year-old dinosaur in Argentina, believing it could be one of the largest land creatures ever to have existed.
The remains, comprising 24 tail vertebrae and parts of the pelvic and pectoral girdle, were discovered within the Candeleros Formation, a dense sedimentary rock formation in Neuquén Province in Argentina’s northwest Patagonia, reports CNN. Paleontologists discovered the fossilized remains of a 98-million-year-old titanosaur in Neuquén Province in Argentina’s northwest Patagonia (Courtesy of Alejandro Otero and José Luis Carballido)
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Author: Paweł Borowicz, Researcher, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo, Norway. Image credit: Pawel Borowicz
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