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If it looks like a duck and swims like a duck, it might be... a dinosaur?? Scientists discovered a new dinosaur that could probably swim and hunt underwater, kind of like a duck -- The WSJ
Swimming dinosaur
The WSJ
If it looks like a duck and swims like a duck, it might be... a dinosaur?? Scientists discovered a new dinosaur that could probably swim and hunt underwater, kind of like a duck -- The WSJ
Nature
Check out the team’s paper here
DailySabah.com
This oddly-shaped dinosaur is such a “weirdo” that scientists first thought it was a lizard or a mammal, reports The Daily Sabah. But it’s definitely a dino
The Independent
The Independent explains that the little dino resembles water birds like ducks and penguins not because they’re closely related, but because it probably adapted to a similar lifestyle
Gizmodo
Gizmodo: This is so cool! Discoveries like these show us just how incredible and diverse dinosaur life really was, and just how much we still have to learn. But let’s be real, it “looks like a nightmare goose”
NY Times
But The NYT reports some paleontologists are still skeptical, and want to see more evidence before officially declaring the dino “semiaquatic”
National Geographic
Nat Geo has some more background: Scientists think another relative might also have been semiaquatic. And some think Spinosaurus could also swim and hunted in water. It’s definitely an ongoing debate in paleontology circles
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