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[–] 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (10 children)

For anyone unaware there's an incredible growing body of research into Arctic-dwelling dinosaurs. They're cool as hell and it's extra cool knowing so much of this was discovered within my own lifetime

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    Wasn't the mesozoic much warmer than our era?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago* (1 child)

    A little bit of reading suggests the arctic during the winter would've gotten down to around -10C so definitely cold enough to require adaptation, but also warm enough to be fully survivable.

    Most of these finds evidencing year-round arctic-dwelling dinosaurs is being found in modern day Alaska and Alberta, but there's also similar finds from the other side of the world too!

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    🤩Please feel free to share stuff, just as a starting point.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    There's surprisingly not that much on the net that I'm finding. I learned about it from a traveling exhibit that came to a localish museum to me, but it's all extremely recent (in comparison to most paleontological discoveries) mostly really becoming an overwhelming body of evidence in the last 30 years or so, but the earliest discoveries date to the 70s and 80s.

    Looks like PBS Nova did a documentary called "Arctic Dinosaurs" and I linked a BBC article in another comment that gives a good overview as well.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (1 child)

    We've known about cold climate mammals like Mammoths, are those the dinosaurs you're talking about? That wouldn't be that revelatory, but if they were REPTILES living in a cold climate, that would be notable.

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