Dr. Neurosaurus

In May (2016), a study was published describing a new marsupial from Australia with an interesting set of teeth. Let’s dive right in. Firstly, what is a marsupial? A marsupial is a type of mammal that has a pouch. When a marsupial baby is born, it crawls into the

In May (2016), two new horned dinosaurs were discovered, and today we will talk about one of them. Horned dinosaurs, like Triceratops and its relatives, are called ceratopsians (meaning “horned faced dinosaur”) and are divided into two groups: Chasmosaurines and Centrosaurines. Chasmosaurines have short nose horns, long eyebrow horns, and

Last week in May (2016) an article was published describing a new marine reptile that lived during the Mesozoic, specifically during the Middle Triassic (274–242 million years ago). Even though we had known about this animal from previous studies, this new study described the shape of the skull based