mercredi 22 juin 2005

Dinosaures: nouvel Album Photo

Newsweek en fait sa une, quelques semaines après NewScientist: les dinosaures sont à la mode.
Et moi qui ne supporte pas de ne pas l'être, j'en fais un Album Photo et je contemple effaré ces bestioles.


NewsweekpetitPhotos issues du journal qui lui-même s'est fourni auprès de l'American Museum of Natural History qui fait une expo là-dessus jusqu'en janvier 2006. Ils ne mourront pas d'ici là.
Les trouvailles, qui viennent notamment de la province de Liaoning (China), ont permis au Museum de dresser la nomenclature suivante (j'ai eu la flemme de traduire, mille excuses, vous comprendez en lisant la liste).
Juste avant, je vous donne ci-dessous cette capture du site de NewScientist avec à gauche l'article sur les dinosaures, et à droite, la pub de Microsoft: ça c'est du contextue!!!
NewscientistdinosaurpubmicrosoftLiaoning Species List:




Dinosaurs:
Beipaosaurus inexpectus
feathered dinosaur that, unlike its relatives, probably ate plants


Microraptor gui
unusual feathered dinosaur with winglike structure on hind limbs


Caudipteryx zoui
first nonavian dinosaur found with modern feathers


Sinosauropteryx prima
first nonavian dinosaur found with feathers


Sinornithosaurus millenii
feathered dinosaur closely related to Velociraptor


Psittacosaurus sinensis
small plant-eating dinosaur that apparently lived in flocks when young


Liaoningosaurus paradoxus
smallest-known armored dinosaur


Dilong paradoxus
early tyrannosaur with primitive feathers


Mei long
fossil of this tiny birdlike dinosaur was found in a sleeping position


Birds
Confuciusornis sanctus
earliest-known toothless beaked bird


Sapeornis chaoyangensis
largest-known Mesozoic bird


Liaoningornis longidigitris
early flying bird


Longipteryx chaoyangensis
early bird that apparently ate fish


Other reptiles:
Hyphalosaurus lingyuanensis
long-necked aquatic reptile


Monjurosuchus splendens
aquatic reptile that preyed on other animals


Manchurochelys liaoxiensis
turtle


Haopterus gracilis
long-snouted flying reptile (pterosaur)


Jeholopterus ningchengensis
flying reptile (pterosaur) covered in a fuzz of thin fibers


Sinopterus dongi
crested flying reptile (pterosaur)


Fish:
Peipiaosteus pani
fish related to modern sturgeon


Lycoptera
fish similar to modern herring


Sinamia
primitive fish


Amphibians:
Callobatrachus sanyanensis
frog closely related to modern frogs


Jeholotriton paradoxus
gilled salamander


Mammals:
Jeholodens jenkinsi
early mammal


Eomaia scansoria
earliest-known modern mammal


Repenomamus giganticus
largest-known Mesozoic mammal


Arthropods
Palaepangonius eupterus
type of fly that was an early pollinating insect


Araneae
orb weaver spider


Ephemeropsis trisetalis
mayfly


Gerridae
large water strider


Cicadidae
cicada and cicada molts


Neuroptera
lacewing


Conchostraca
small, shelled crustacean


Blattodea
cockroach


Dermestidae
beetle that fed on dead animals


Aeschnidium heishankowense
dragonfly


Palaeocambarus licenti
crayfish


Plants
Archaefructus
one of the earliest-known flowering plants


Equisetum
horsetail


Ephedra
shrub similar to those found in arid American west


Xiajiajienia
fern that closely resembles modern ferns


Tyrmia
small tree that may have been a major food source for plant-eating dinosaurs


Czekanowskia
unusual tree with long needlelike leaves


Pityocladus densifolius
tree similar to modern pines


Pityocladus jianshangouensis
tree similar to modern pines


Ginkgo
tree closely related to modern ginkgos


Rehezemites
member of the bennettite family of plants, which went extinct 85 million years ago


Brachyphyllum
very primitive cone-bearing plant

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