T-Rex had lips???

Theropod dinosaurs such as the iconic Tyrannosaurus rex have long been portrayed with their teeth fully visible, similar to extant crocodilians. This pattern of portrayal largely had to do with relatedness between dinosaurs and crocodilians and the relationship between tooth and jaw size.

Full article HERE from Science magazine…

And every little six year old boy in the world (and those who remember being six) are going NOOOOOooooo… Teef, they has big teef!!!

Sigh… Sometimes science does destroy our dreams… LOL

And this one from Norway is even more interesting! Some scientists decided to take a look at the farmland around the Jell Mound in southern Norway to see if anything else was there.

(Jellhaugen is the second largest burial mound in Norway and among the largest in Scandinavia and Northern Europe. It has a diameter of 85 metres and a height of around 9 metres. It’s difficult to know exactly how old it is, but has been dated to around 1,500 years ago.)

What they found was completely unexpected!!!

The Late Nordic Iron Age (AD 550–1050) was characterised by significant change in political, military, judicial and religious structures across Scandinavia, most clearly manifested in the appearance of high-status ‘central places’ in the landscape. Recent ground-penetrating radar surveys at Gjellestad in Norway have revealed a site comprising several large burial mounds—one of which contains a ship burial—in addition to a possible cult house and a feasting hall. This combination of features suggests that Gjellestad was part of a hitherto unknown central place on the eastern shores of the Oslofjord. If correct, the authors’ interpretations demonstrate that the layouts of these sites were formulaic, and that central places may be more common than previously thought.

Full article, HERE from Cambridge University Press.

So we keep learning as technology allows more and more ways to ‘examine’ previously unknown locations…