[4] The holotype specimen (MNN GAD512) consists of a partial skull and neck. The sea cow was used to supply Russian seal hunters with prized meat on long sea journeys, and killing was often wasteful. Since several rebbachisaurids inhabited latitudes that would have been tropical to subtropical in the Middle Cretaceous, this pneumacity may have helped the animals cope with the very high temperatures. In contrast to Nigersaurus, sauropods with lower tooth replacement rates and broader tooth crowns are thought to have been canopy browsers. In the following years, many more such playlists appeared on YouTube, with several gaining millions of views. However, his stature has saved him from becoming a burger. It is one of the most common fossil vertebrates found in the area, and shared its habitat with other dinosaurian megaherbivores, as well as large theropods and crocodylomorphs. Among that clade, Nigersaurus was fairly small, with a body length of only 9 m (30 ft) and a femur reaching only 1 m (3 ft 3 in). popbuzz.co/2TNZoje pic.twitter.com/iLcauAn6G4, Picture: This species of Cow, does not give of milk, instead, the udders, are used for spraying ink-like stuff at predators. Here are 20 of the best cow memes: Cowmooonicating with Mother Earth. Like its modern relatives, the sea cow aggregated in herds. When you’re in a Hurry. - Bringing Back, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nigersaurus&oldid=986316267, Wikipedia pages semi-protected against vandalism, Wikipedia indefinitely move-protected pages, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 31 October 2020, at 02:49. The sea cow was studied by a single scientist, Georg Steller, after whom the species is named. On March 17th, YouTuber AstroJens uploaded a mix with a still from the Studio Ghibli film Spirited Away serving as the visual, gaining over 131,000 views (shown below, right). These connecting struts of bones were usually less than 2 mm (0.08 in) thick. They also made an endocast of the brain and scanned the semicircular canals of its inner ear, which they found to be oriented horizontally. Just a quick search and you’ll find tons of really funny cow memes. [9], The remains of Nigersaurus were initially described by Taquet in 1976 as belonging to a dicraeosaurid, but in 1999 Sereno and colleagues reclassified it as a rebbachisaurid diplodocoid. [16], On the basis of microtomography scans of skull elements of the holotype specimen, Sereno and colleagues created a "prototype" Nigersaurus skull they could examine. [18] This was supported by the Spanish palaeontologist Jesús Marugán-Lobón and colleagues in a 2013 study that suggested the methods used by Sereno's team were imprecise, and that Nigersaurus habitually held its head like other sauropods. Each tooth was replaced once every 14 days; the rate had previously been estimated lower. Remains thought to belong to Nigersaurus were first discovered during a 1965–72 expedition to the Republic of Niger led by French paleontologist Philippe Taquet, and first mentioned in a paper published in 1976. 1 0; Cow. The limited understanding of the genus was the result of poor preservation of its remains, which arises from the delicate and highly pneumatic construction of the skull and skeleton, in turn causing disarticulation of the fossils. Me still trying to shop at Forever 21 pic.twitter.com/Cc60PVKfxq, my brain processing feedback pic.twitter.com/OEK9AgEW99, HERE, TAKE IT YOU UNGRATEFUL SLACKERS, TAKE IT ALL pic.twitter.com/n5NKjFN6dc, Me when my wife made me go to the 12:01am release of Twilight: Breaking Dawn pic.twitter.com/obZRlSOyBz, “too fat to be killed” is a 2019 mood, sincere congrats to knickers the cow, People: "If only there were some good news sometimes. Jacqueline Lynch/ ABC News/Pinterest, 13 Going On 30's Christa Allen recreates iconic Jennifer, Who is the most followed person on TikTok? Be on the lookout for your Britannica newsletter to get trusted stories delivered right to your inbox.
[17], Nigersaurus was suggested by Sereno and colleagues to be a ground-level, non-selective browser. Probably not, because the liquid that soaks Luke’s beard is milky rather than clear. Read about our approach to external linking.
Why did the cow cross the ocean. Of course, one particular photo of Knickers sticking out in the herd like a sore thumb is being used as a meme. "The internet: "Here's a really big cow. Manatees have a sensitive trunk like an elephant’s, only shorter; they digest their food like horses; and they have sensory hairs over their entire body, like cats and dogs have on their faces. PROTIP: Knickers is a Holstein steer, which are usually a considerably bigger than cows. These otters fed on sea urchins, and the otters' absence caused an explosion in sea urchin numbers. Today, the term sea cow is sometimes used to refer to other sirenians, namely, the manatee and the dugong. So when the story of Knickers the cow broke you know its meme-power was instant.So you probably know about Knickers already – he's a pretty big deal. Like the dugong, the sea cow had a relatively small head and a broad, horizontal forked tail fluke. Its brain-to-body-mass ratio was average for a reptile, and smaller than those of ornithischians and non-coelurosaurian theropods. No preserved specimens exist today, but the sea cow was certainly the largest sirenian. Sea cow, (Hydrodamalis gigas), also called Steller’s sea cow, very large aquatic mammal, now extinct, that once inhabited nearshore areas of the Komandor Islands in the Bering Sea.