The megaraptor Joaquinraptor, described in 2025 from a partial skeleton in South America, had a crocodilian bone against its jaws, suggesting it may have been feeding on a crocodilian shortly before it died.
Sources
- The Top Ten Dinosaur Discoveries of 2025, From Preserved Blood ... (smithsonianmag.com)
- https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/dinosaur-megaraptor-new-fossil-argentina-final-meal (nationalgeographic.com)
- https://www.sciencealert.com/new-megaraptor-species-found-with-shocking-last-meal-still-in-its-mouth (sciencealert.com)
- https://blog.everythingdinosaur.com/blog/_archives/2025/09/23/a-new-species-of-patagonian-megaraptor-is-announced.html (blog.everythingdinosaur.com)
More in Science
- Fermat's Last Theorem, first conjectured around 1637, was not proven until 1994 by mathematician Andrew Wiles.
- Quantum mechanics concepts and methods have been applied to quantum chemistry.
- The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) transports warm water and life-supporting nutrients from the tropics to the North Atlantic.
- The average American consumes about 3,400 milligrams of sodium per day.
- The Polish tetrapod footprints indicate that four-limbed, digit-bearing vertebrates were walking nearly 20 million years earlier than previously thought based on the fossil record.
- The Open Science Collaboration's article on psychological-science reproducibility was authored by a group of 270 coauthors.