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Paleontology, also spelled palaeontology[a] or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present). It includes the study of fossils to classify organisms and study their interactions with each other and their environments (their /c/paleoecology. Read more...

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I thought all dinosaur species were very old.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

all dinosaur species were very old

On a human-scale timeframe? Yeah, sure. On evolutionary timescales? According to a PDF by "Charles Sibley" whose content I can only see a small Google snippet of, "Galliformes and Craciformes diverged at a 21.6." (I assume that's MYA) And certainly a lot more diversification has happened since then. Gallus domesticus is probably less than 8,000 years old.

Though a new sauropod would certainly be quite the marvel.