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How can you tell? By looking at various features of the hip bones and hind limb bones, and also the arms, the arms in this animal are still very short. Whereas the animals walk on all fours, the forearms seem to get much longer and nearly the same length as the hind legs. Excellent. So this is a new species discovered at this quarry? That' s right. And what kind of information does it give with regards to the evolution of these dinosaurs then? It tells us a lot more about how the locomotion in these animals evolved, how they walked. It tells us a bit more potentially about how they may have increased in body size because larger animals tend to walk on all fours. So it gives us a nice window on the evolution of this group and the origin of these gigantic Sauropods. So this is it, a new species of dinosaur discovered here in South Africa, it' s been named Aardonyx Celestae. This species helps to fill in another gap in our understanding of how dinosaurs that walked on two legs eventually became the fourlegged goliaths that are icons of the Jurassic. |
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nǐ shì zěn me què dìng de? tōng guò guān chá gǔ gǔ hé hòu zhī gǔ de gè zhǒng tè zhēng, hái yǒu qián zhī gǔ, zhè zhǐ kǒng lóng de qián zhī yī jiù duǎn xiǎo, ér qí tā sì zhī xíng zǒu de kǒng lóng qián zhī jiù biàn de gèng zhǎng yī xiē, jī hū yǔ hòu zhī děng zhǎng. zhēn lì hài, nà me zhè shì zài zhè yī qū yù fā xiàn de xīn wù zhǒng lóu? méi cuò zhè duì yán jiū kǒng lóng de jìn huà tí gōng le shén me xìn xī ne? wǒ men fēn xī chū jìn huà guò chéng zhōng qī xī dì de biàn qiān, yǐ jí dòng wù xíng zǒu fāng shì de gǎi biàn, yě kě yǐ tuī duàn chū kǒng lóng de tǐ xíng zēng dà le. yīn wèi dà xíng dòng wù wǎng wǎng sì zhī zháo dì xíng zǒu, tā wèi wǒ men dǎ kāi yī shàn ào miào zhī chuāng, jiē shì le dà xíng xī jiǎo mù kǒng lóng de qǐ yuán yǔ jìn huà guò chéng, ér zhè zhǒng yú nán fēi fā xiàn de xīn wù zhǒng kǒng lóng, bèi mìng míng wèi dì zhǎo lóng. tā wèi wǒ men tián bǔ le jìn huà guò chéng de yī huán, zhǎn shì le liǎng zhī xíng zǒu de kǒng lóng, shì rú hé yǎn huà chéng sì zhī xíng zǒu de jù shòu chéng wéi zhū luó jì de biāo zhì. |