A sparkly dinosaur that mummified like an Egyptian

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Dinosaur of the day Amphicoelias, a diplodocid that was widely reported to be the largest dinosaur of all time, but is now considered much smaller.

In dinosaur news this week:

• An Edmontosaurus from the Hell Creek formation nicknamed Dakota likely desiccated for weeks before being buried and fossilizing
• The new dinosaur Mbiresaurus helps show that the earliest dinosaurs lived in the far south of Pangaea in temperate climates
• New dinosaur Nevadadromeus schmitti has officially been published
• Having narrower eye sockets may have helped tyrannosaurs and other large theropods to have a more powerful bite
• How SUE the T. rex got holes in its jaws remains a mystery
• In Australia, Muttaburrasaurus is officially Queensland’s State Fossil

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