{"id":1189,"date":"2010-03-22T22:19:57","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T11:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aschoonerofscience.com\/?p=1189"},"modified":"2010-03-22T22:21:22","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T11:51:22","slug":"new-dinosaur-species-discovered-linheraptor-exquisitus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aschoonerofscience.com\/recent-research\/new-dinosaur-species-discovered-linheraptor-exquisitus\/","title":{"rendered":"New dinosaur species discovered, Linheraptor exquisitus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1190\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificblogging.com\/news_articles\/linheraptor_exquisitus_new_raptor_species_discovered_mongolia\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1190\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aschoonerofscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/linheraptorsquare.jpg?resize=300%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" title=\"Linheraptor\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aschoonerofscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/linheraptorsquare.jpg?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aschoonerofscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/linheraptorsquare.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1190\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artists impression by Matt van Rooijen<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Meet <em>Linheraptor exquisitus<\/em>, a species related to the infamous <em>Velociraptor<\/em>. It was discovered in the Gobi Desert, Inner Mongolia. The paper was published in <em>Zootaxa<\/em> a couple of days ago. <\/p>\n<p>Two PhD students named Michael Pittman and Jonah Choinier made the discovery. They were doing a field project at the time. <\/p>\n<p>Finding a new species of dinosaur&#8230; It sounds like the kind of dream you have as a kid. Certainly in my younger years I nurtured fantasies of discovering a dinosaur and naming it something cool. I think <em>Linheraptor exquisitus<\/em> fits the bill.<\/p>\n<p>As Michael describes the <em>exquisitus<\/em> experience, &#8220;Jonah saw a claw protruding from the cliff face. He carefully removed it and handed it to me. We went through its features silently but he wanted my identification first. I told him it was from a carnivorous dinosaur and when he agreed I&#8217;m surprised nobody in London heard us shouting.&#8221; Here&#8217;s a picture of the fossil.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/palaeoblog.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/new-chinese-dromaeosaur-linheraptor.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aschoonerofscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/linheraptorfossil.jpg?resize=300%2C192&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" title=\"Linheraptor Fossil\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aschoonerofscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/linheraptorfossil.jpg?resize=300%2C192&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aschoonerofscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/linheraptorfossil.jpg?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It looks pretty intact, doesn&#8217;t it? I particularly like the foot, it looks like it&#8217;s dancing a merry jig in a silent movie. <\/p>\n<p>That foot housed a stomach-slicing claw like that of Jurassic Park fame. The dinosaur would have been about 2.5 metres long and weighed 25 kilograms. <\/p>\n<p><em>Quote from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2010-03\/ucl-sdn031710.php\">EurekAlerts.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet Linheraptor exquisitus, a species related to the infamous Velociraptor. It was discovered in the Gobi Desert, Inner Mongolia. The paper was published in Zootaxa a couple of days ago. Two PhD students named Michael Pittman and Jonah Choinier made the discovery. They were doing a field project at the time. Finding a new species [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5],"tags":[128,129],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pxs8D-jb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aschoonerofscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aschoonerofscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aschoonerofscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aschoonerofscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aschoonerofscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aschoonerofscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aschoonerofscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aschoonerofscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aschoonerofscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}