{"id":767846,"date":"2026-09-12T01:18:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T01:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/767846\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T01:18:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T01:18:13","slug":"can-you-draw-a-t-rex-correctly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/767846\/","title":{"rendered":"Can You Draw a T. Rex Correctly?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Miller: First, the age of Mandrasuchus is incredible. This species evolved in North America in the immediate aftermath of the asteroid impact and K-Pg mass extinction, the event that wiped out the non-avian dinosaurs. While the Earth was recovering from the worst event in the history of multicellular life, Mandrasuchus was thriving!<\/p>\n

What really hits home for me is what this specimen tells us about ecological resilience \u2026It\u2019s a remarkable testament to how life doesn\u2019t just survive catastrophic change, it repopulates, adapts, evolves, and radiates.<\/p>\n

Your Suggestions for a New Pterosaur\u2019s Name\"A<\/p>\n

King Tutankhamun\u2019s golden throne was adorned with a winged serpent diety known as a Wadjet.<\/p>\n

Andrea Jemolo, Bridgeman Images<\/p>\n

Last month I told you about National Geographic Explorer Hesham Sallam and how his team discovered Egypt\u2019s first ever pterosaur fossil<\/a> while excavating the fabled Bahariya Oasis. Sallam and his team are not sure whether it is a new species, but that didn\u2019t stop us here at Stones & Bones from pondering some potential names just in case.<\/p>\n

I suggested they name it after Wadjet, a winged serpent deity depicted in ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs and on King Tutankhamun\u2019s golden throne. Several readers liked that option, and some wrote in their own suggestions.<\/p>\n

\u201cPterosaur aegyptos gets my vote!\u201d said Stones & Bones reader Lois Sprengnether Keel. Other readers sent in names that were a little less taxonomic but still fun, such as Peter, Petra, and Ptolemy. Though I think LeAnn Blasius offered my favorite, a clever portmanteau: Egypterosaur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miller: First, the age of Mandrasuchus is incredible. This species evolved in North America in the immediate aftermath…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":767847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[115330,59,253428,253429,90,56713,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-767846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-cornell","tag-gb","tag-ithaca-college","tag-mesozoic","tag-science","tag-tyrannosaurus-rex","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=767846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/767847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}