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Some Dinosaurs Probably Nested in Arctic

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Scientific American

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🗓️ 9 September 2020

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

The finding of a baby dinosaur fossil in the Arctic implies that some dinos nested in the region, which was milder than today but not toasty.

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0:28.4

Those vicious predatory dinosaurs that tended to be fairly small,

0:35.0

at six to nine, ten feet long snout to tail,

0:40.0

they're certainly in the Jurassic Park movies, the things that terrorize people.

0:45.0

Anthony Fiarillo, a paleontologist at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.

0:51.0

For more than two decades now, Fiallo has been digging up dinosaur fossils hundreds of miles north of the Arctic Circle in Alaska.

0:59.0

So one of the fundamental questions.

1:05.0

in Alaska, in the ancient Arctic, is did they live there all year round?

1:08.7

Did they migrate?

1:09.8

How did they get there?

1:11.2

A recent discovery sheds light on those questions. This

1:15.2

fossil that's the subject of this study is a baby dinosaur, it's a baby predatory

1:21.0

dinosaur and it is a baby it's not just a juvenile, and given the size estimate of this thing, this probably

1:30.7

was not far from where the nesting ground was, so this is the first physical proof that at least some dinosaurs nested in the

1:39.7

ancient Arctic. Some of the first Arctic dinosaur remains ever found were discovered back in the

1:45.2

1960s in Sfallbard, an archipelago north of mainland Norway. Since then researchers

1:51.6

have theorized that dinosaurs must have migrated to avoid deeply cold winters.

1:57.0

But Fiorillo says this new discovery disproves that idea.

2:01.0

Well, you know, the classic stereotype for dinosaurs is that had been that they

2:07.2

were living in subtropical environments oftentimes somewhat swampy.

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