Science is Here!!! (UPDATE)

Time for a daily dose of science!  

Rumors of an approaching "mini ice age" have been flying around a lot lately, but thankfully (or not), they aren't true.

NASA's New Horizon's probe got up close and personal with former planet Pluto.  No word yet on how Pluto feels about the demotion.

The teeth of a large tyrannosaur have been discovered in Japan.

Huanansaurus, yet another oviraptorid from the Nanxiong Formation, is described and appears to be a close relative of Citipati.

Lepidus, a simply named theropod from Texas, is probably the oldest coelophysoid ever found.  This study is also one of many in recent years that have found Eoraptor to group closer to sauropodomorphs than to theropods.

Speeking of sauropody-things, it wouldn't be a new year without some generic basal sauropodomorph from Gondwana; enter Sefapanosaurus.

And then there's Kosmoceratops wannabe Wendiceratops, which also had an unusual nasal horn.

Oh, and remember that little enantiornithe preserved with feathers from Brazil?  Well now it has a name: Cratoavis cearensis.

Mark Witton published a paper suggesting early pterosaurs like Dimorphodon may have actually been quite nimble on the ground.  As usual, Peters is upset that he wasn't referenced.

Kellner analyzed the remains of the earliest pterosaurs (many of which had been referred to Eudimorphodon), and in the process, described three new taxa!  The pterosaur world welcomes Arcticodactylus, Austriadraco, and Bergamodactylus!

And finally, we have Linlongopterus, a new toothy pterosaur from China.

UPDATE:

A few things I missed:

Monitor Lizards dig complex burrow systems.

And elephants were bigger than indricotheres and could beat them in a fight!

I also decided to remove those video links because a) they weren't working, and b) they were making the page take too long to load.  Don't worry though, I'll try putting them in a new journal soon.  Anyone have any tips on how to properly add a Youtube video to a journal?  Clearly I did something wrong.