image: The preserved bones of UA 9998, a Rapetosaurus perinate from the Upper Cretaceous Maevarano Formation of Madagascar. Femur, Tibia, right and left fibulae, right and left humeri, a metatarsal, metacarpal, phalanx, pubis, and a few partial vertebrae were recovered in the field. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the April 22, 2016 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by K.C. Rogers at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn., and colleagues was titled, "Precociality in a tiny titanosaur from the Cretaceous of Madagascar." view more
Credit: K. Curry Rogers, M. Whitney, M. D'Emic, and B. Bagley