one of the largest duck-billed dinosaurs, up to 12 metres (39 ft) long
and weighing around 4.0 metric tons (4.4 short tons). Widely distributed
across western North America, especially in the coasts and coastal
plains, it was a herbivore with small solid or fleshy crests that could
move on two legs or four, and is thought to have lived in groups. It was
named after Edmonton, Alberta; the first fossils were discovered in
Alberta's Horseshoe Canyon Formation. Abundant fossils have allowed
researchers to study its brain, feeding habits, pathologies, and even
injuries, including in one case from a tyrannosaur attack. Fossils of E.
regalis have been found in rocks that date from 73 million years ago,
while those of E. annectens (reconstruction pictured) are around
66 million years old, both in the Cretaceous Period. Edmontosaurus was
one of the last non-avian dinosaurs, living alongside Triceratops and
Tyrannosaurus shortly before the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmontosaurus>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1841:
Giselle, a ballet by French composer Adolphe Adam, was first
performed at the Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique in Paris.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giselle>
1880:
Police captured Australian bank robber and cultural icon Ned
Kelly after a gun battle in Glenrowan, Victoria.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Kelly>
1922:
The Irish Civil War began with an assault by the Irish Free
State's National Army on the Four Courts building, which had been
occupied by the Anti-Treaty Irish Republican Army.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Civil_War>
1989:
President of Serbia Slobodan Milošević gave a speech in which
he described the possibility of "armed battles" in the future of
Serbia's national development.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gazimestan_speech>
2005:
War in Afghanistan: Three U.S. Navy SEALs and 16 American
Special Operations Forces soldiers were killed during a failed counter-
insurgent mission in Kunar Province, Afghanistan.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Red_Wings>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
röck döts:
(informal, humorous) Heavy metal umlauts; umlauts over letters in the
name of a heavy metal band (as in "Motörhead", "Queensrÿche" and
"Mötley Crüe"), added gratuitously for mere stylistic effect.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/r%C3%B6ck_d%C3%B6ts>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty
without virtue.
--Jean-Jacques Rousseau
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jean-Jacques_Rousseau>
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