(Credit:Jorge Gonzalez)CC BY-NC Iani Smithi Researchers are considering the recently discovered  Iani smithi ( Iani) ,  a mid-Cretaceous plant-eating dinosaur, a 'last gasp' of a species as the planet's climate warmed and altered life for its prehistoric inhabitants.  According to a recent study from North Carolina State University,  I. smithi  was an early ornithopod — a species that would eventually lead to duckbill dinosaurs like  Parasaurolophus  and  Edmontosaurus  — that lived 99 million years ago.

https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/newly-discovered-dinosaur-iani-may-hold-key-to-understanding-earths

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