Top 10 Most AMAZING Dinosaur Discoveries!

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Top 10 Most AMAZING Dinosaur Discoveries! From the most complete dino remains to the earliest feathered creatures...stay tuned to number 1 to learn about the most incredible dinosaur finds of all time!

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Number 10: Nodosaur.
A group of miners were incredibly fortunate to come across one of the best-preserved fossils found to date, however, it has only been in the last year that paleontologists have been able to completely unearth and move a large section of the fossil. The specimen is of a newly discovered species of Nodosaur, a type of ankylosaur often overshadowed by its cereal box–famous cousin the Stegosaurus. As it lumbered across the landscape between 110 million and 112 million years ago, almost midway through the Cretaceous period, the 18-foot-long, nearly 3,000-pound behemoth was the rhinoceros of its day. A grumpy herbivore that largely kept to itself. As with many of the other well-armored herbivores, this creature had the perfect defense for when a predator comes calling - two 20-inch-long spikes jutting out of its shoulders like a misplaced pair of bull’s horns. When the miners unearthed the find they knew immediately that it was something unlike anything they’d seen before. The amazing level of fossilization, which was caused by its rapid undersea burial, is incredibly rare and has offered scientists a unique opportunity to research this species in detail. Usually, just the bones and teeth are preserved, but on this occasion a lot more of the animal was fossilized.
Number 9: The Velociraptor and Protoceratops
Here we have perhaps the coolest find ever, which was
discovered in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia in 1971 and is 74 million years old. Before we hear about it, though, I’d really appreciate it if you’d take a moment to subscribe to our channel for more videos from Zero2Hero! While you’re there, be sure to click the little notification bell and like this video!
This fossil is the preserved remains of a Velociraptor AND a Protoceratops who are now eternally attached to one another. No one knows exactly how they ended up like this, but there are a couple of different theories. One theory suggests that the velociraptor was fighting the Protoceratops when they were covered by a landslide. One feature of the fossil which might support this is that the velociraptor has sunk its deadly foot claw deep in the neck of the Protoceratops, and the Protoceratops appears to have thrown the Velociraptor to the ground, with its jaw is locked on the predator’s right arm. However, others have interpreted it differently, such as those who give more credence to the theory that the velociraptor was feasting on the Protoceratops when they were both covered in a landslide. However they got there, thankfully their remains have offered us a glimpse into the distant past.
Number 8: Andrew Carnegie’s Diplodocus.
Sometimes people are fortunate enough to find exactly what they’re looking for and such is the case with Andrew Carnegie. After amassing a small fortune and opening his own museum, Carnegie wanted to get his hands on impressive dinosaur skeletons, so he financed expeditions to northern Wyoming and southern Utah to find some. Luckily he did, and was even fortunate enough to find a complete skeleton of the biggest dinosaur discovered to date. Named Diplodocus carnegiei – or Carnegie’s double-beam, the entire animal was over 25 meters long and dwarfed in size and completeness anything else that had been discovered up to that date. It roamed the planet 155 - 45 million years ago and feasted on leaves and trees on the tops of trees thanks to its very long neck. It’s not surprising that Carnegie was so happy with his find that he had casts of it sent to museums around the world.
Number 7: Mama Oviraptor.
This is a find of a brooding mother who was sat on her nest of eggs when disaster struck between 83 and 66 million years ago. Found in 1994 in the Gobi Desert, Mongolia, this find helped rewrite our understanding of Oviraptor. When the first one was unearthed in 1922, the species was incorrectly given a name associated with ‘egg thief’ due it proximity to a group of eggs which were originally believed to belong to a Protoceratops, however, later finds suggested that this interpretation was incorrect and that the oviraptor was in fact likely the parent, and not an egg thief at all. The 1994 discovery helped cement this belief as the fossil was more or less complete – only missing its head – and it was sat on a nest – positioned in exactly the same way modern birds incubate their eggs. When alive, the species was one of the most bird-like of the therapod dinosaurs with several features similar to birds.