June 20 - Dinosaur News

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Artist's illustration of a hadrosaur, and its hypothesized nose. Click into the article for an actual photo of hadrosaur bones. Image via Julius Csotonyi/University of Calgary.

Fossils reveal new details about hadrosaur's appearance More evidence for a showy, fleshy snout for the hadrosaur, part of the family of duck-billed dinosaurs. These creatures lived 75 million years ago in what's now northern Montana and southern Alberta, Canada. Read more. Baby pterodactyls could fly from birth A new study suggests the prehistoric reptiles could fly right after hatching. It's something no flying animal living today, or in the history of life as we know it, has been able to do. Read more. Exciting progress on NASA's next Mars mission The Mars Helicopter - which will launch with Mars 2020 - has now passed some key tests. Plus engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, celebrate with a selfie after attaching the Mars 2020 rover's remote sensing mast. Read more.

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Slowest sunsets happen around the solstice We're talking about the number of minutes it takes for the body of the sun to sink below your western horizon. Fastest at the equinoxes, slowest at the solstices. Read more. Photo shows a June solstice sunset in the nation of Oman, on the Arabian Peninsula, from our friend Priya Kumar. Thank you, Priya!

The fish are biting John Ashley wrote: "I must confess to time spent drifting with some fishy characters recently, making portraits. Now I can't decide if I like any of them. Help me out here, which one(s) do you like, and why? In this image, 2 female Westslope cutthroat trout argue over a favorite location in a Montana spawning stream." See the photos. Submit your photo to EarthSky here! Did a friend forward EarthSkyNews to you? Click here to get your own subscription!

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