dinosaur, lived around 214 to 204 million years ago during the Late
Triassic period in what is now Central and Northern Europe. It was an
early sauropodomorph dinosaur, a so-called "prosauropod". It is now
among the dinosaurs best known to science: over 100 skeletons have been
found, some of them nearly complete. The abundance of its fossils in
Swabia, Germany, has led to the nickname Schwäbischer Lindwurm (Swabian
lindworm). Plateosaurus was a bipedal herbivore with a small skull on a
long, mobile neck, sharp but plump plant-crushing teeth, powerful hind
limbs, short but muscular arms and grasping hands with large claws on
three fingers, possibly used for defence and feeding. Plateosaurus
showed strong developmental plasticity: instead of having a fairly
uniform adult size, fully grown individuals were between 4.8 and 10
metres (16 and 33 ft) long and weighed between 600 and 4,000 kilograms
(1,300 and 8,800 lb). The animals lived for at least 12 to 20 years,
but the maximum life span is not known.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plateosaurus>
_______________________________
Today's selected anniversaries:
1508:
Ferdinand II of Aragon appointed Amerigo Vespucci to the post
of Chief Navigator of Spain.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerigo_Vespucci>
1638:
The Massachusetts Bay Colony expelled Anne Hutchinson from its
ranks for dissenting from Puritan orthodoxy.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Hutchinson>
1913:
Phan Xích Long, the self-proclaimed Emperor of Vietnam, was
arrested for organising a revolt against the colonial rule of French
Indochina, which was nevertheless carried out by his supporters the
following day.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phan_X%C3%ADch_Long>
1963:
Please Please Me, the first album recorded by The Beatles, was
released.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Please_Please_Me>
2006:
The remaining three Christian Peacemaker Teams hostages were
rescued from their Iraqi captors by a multinational force.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Peacemaker_hostage_crisis>
_____________________________
Wiktionary's word of the day:
pseudometeorite:
A rock that is initially believed to be a meteorite, but is in fact
terrestrial in origin.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pseudometeorite>
___________________________
Wikiquote quote of the day:
There will come a time when you believe everything is finished;
that will be the beginning.
--Louis L'Amour
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Louis_L%27Amour>
_______________________________________________
Wikipedia Daily Article mailing list.
To unsubscribe, visit:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/daily-article-l
Questions or comments? Contact dal-feedback@wikimedia.org