{"id":1151229,"date":"2026-08-16T04:30:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T04:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1151229\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T04:30:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T04:30:29","slug":"the-dinosaurs-that-went-extinct-twice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1151229\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dinosaurs That Went Extinct &#8230; Twice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">But archaeological sites filled with butchered mammoth bones can give researchers a peek into more than just the animals people liked to hunt, says Hannah Moots, an archaeologist at the Center for Paleogenetics in Stockholm and the study\u2019s lead author.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">\u201cThese mammoth bone accumulation sites preserve some of the richest evidence we have of Ice Age life,\u201d she says, \u201cincluding mammoth bone structures, sophisticated ivory and stone artifacts, and early figurative art, such as the\u00a0<a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/history\/history-magazine\/article\/who-were-these-queens-of-the-stone-age\" target=\"_blank\" dir=\"ltr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Venus of Dolni\u0301 Ve\u030cstonice.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A large marine reptile with sharp teeth emerges from blue water, catching a flying pterosaur in its jaws, with an even larger reptile visible below.\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl vBqtr KrDt itslR zFTjo hakZw HlUVI UbGlr \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/BOB_Ptero-Platy-Krono_Cretaceous_Reconst_PT_72ppi_20X20ins.jpg\" id=\"BOB_Ptero-Platy-Krono_Cretaceous_Reconst_PT_72ppi_20X20ins\"\/><\/p>\n<p>This illustration imagines a prehistoric food chain involving a pterosaur, an ichthyosaur, and\u00a0Kronosaurus queenslandicus.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Peter Trusler<\/p>\n<p>Pterducken?!!<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Bahariya Oasis wasn\u2019t the only place where massive prehistoric predators faced off in a royal rumble: In the Australian outback, paleontologists\u00a0<a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S1342937X26001656?via%3Dihub%23f0010\" target=\"_blank\" dir=\"ltr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">recently came across<\/a>\u00a0a fossilized food chain in action involving three 100-million-year-old carnivorous reptiles: a pterosaur that was eaten by a sea monster known as an ichthyosaur, which was in turn eaten by an even bigger, 40-foot sea monster known as a\u00a0Kronosaurus!<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">\u201cWe could assume such interactions did occur,\u201d says Matt White, a paleontologist at the University of New England in Australia and an author of the study, which was published recently in\u00a0Gondwana Research.\u00a0\u201cWe just never found the evidence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">It makes me think of that\u00a0Star Wars\u00a0line \u201cThere\u2019s always a bigger fish\u201d\u2014or marine reptile, in this case.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But archaeological sites filled with butchered mammoth bones can give researchers a peek into more than just 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