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Forget Jurassic Park: inside the gorgeous David Attenborough series that’s redefining dinosaurs
Jurassic Park was released 30 years ago, but in those three decades our perception of dinosaurs has largely remained static. In the public consciousness, they were giant, scaly beasts with huge claws and teeth who spent their days chasing down victims and ripping them apart in brutal fashion. Think dinosaur and you will probably picture a primal, primitive force of unbelievable fury.
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Asteroid that killed the dinosaurs also triggered global tsunami
The asteroid that struck Earth 66 million years ago, wiping out three-quarters of the planet's plant and animal life (most famously the dinosaurs), also triggered a worldwide tsunami with mile-high wa
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P.E.I. school teacher stumbles upon fossil that may be 300 million years old
A P.E.I. school teacher has made the discovery of a lifetime after stumbling upon a fossil that could be 300 million years old. Lisa Cormier was taking a stroll in Cape Egmont Monday afternoon when she spotted something unusual partially buried on the shore.
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Portugal man accidentally uncovers a 25-metre-long dinosaur skeleton in his own backyard
A 25-metre fossilised dinosaur skeleton was the last thing a Portugal man expected to uncover in his own backyard in 2017, but now researchers believe he may have stumbled upon the largest of its kind in Europe.
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Pterosaurs may have had brightly colored feathers on their heads
Pterosaurs not only had feathers, but also were flamboyantly colorful, scientists say. That could mean that feathers — and vibrant displays of mate-seeking plumage — may have originated as far back as the common ancestor of dinosaurs and pterosaurs, during the early Triassic Period around 250 million years ago.
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DNA has a 521-year half-life
Few researchers have given credence to claims that samples of dinosaur DNA have survived to the present day, but no one knew just how long it would take for genetic material to fall apart. Now, a study of fossils found in New Zealand is laying the matter to rest — and putting an end to hopes of cloning a Tyrannosaurus rex.
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Why One Extraordinary Collection of Dinosaur Embryos Remains Locked Away From Science
Self-taught fossil specialist Terry Manning uncovered his first dinosaur embryo from an ancient egg in 1993. More than 30 embryos and nearly three decades later, hardly anyone has laid eyes or hands on his rare specimens.
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Scientists discover new dinosaur species with ‘bizarre’ spiky armour
Spikes in this ankylosaur is peculiar since it is fused to the rib bones and not growing out from skin
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Scientists say new dinosaur species is largest found in Australia
Scientists in Australia have classified a new species of dinosaur, discovered in 2007, as the largest ever found on the continent. The Australotitan cooperensis or "the southern titan", is among the 15 largest dinosaurs found worldwide. Experts said the titanosaur would have been up to 6.5m (21ft) tall and 30m long, or "as long as a basketball court".
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Dinosaurs once flourished near the North Pole
The bones of their young suggest they were permanent residents, not migrants | Science & technology
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New dinosaur species found in Australia was as long as a basketball court
Paleontologists classified a new species of sauropod that now ranks as Australia's largest dinosaur. The species was known as Australotitan cooperensis.
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New species of crested dinosaur identified in Mexico
A team of palaeontologists in Mexico have identified a new species of dinosaur after finding its 72 million-year-old fossilized remains almost a decade ago, Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) said on Thursday.
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Bird-like dinosaur could hunt in total darkness, pointing to thriving prehistoric 'nightlife' | CBC News
Under the cover of darkness in desert habitats about 70 million years ago, in what is today Mongolia and northern China, a gangly looking dinosaur employed excellent night vision and superb hearing to thrive as a menacing pint-sized nocturnal predator.
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How many T. rexes were there? Billions.
By analyzing what’s known about the dinosaur, paleontologists conclude there were 2.5 billion T. rex over the 2.4-million-year existence of the species
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Asteroid dust found at Chicxulub Crater confirms cause of dinosaurs’
Although an asteroid impact has long been the suspected cause of the mass extinction 66 million years ago, researchers think new evidence finally closes the case.
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8-Year-Old Calls Out NPR For Lack Of Dinosaur Stories
How can All Things Considered consider all things without considering dinosaurs? That's the question posed by 8-year-old Leo Shidla of Minneapolis.
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First tyrannosaur embryo fossils revealed
New scans of a tiny Cretaceous jaw and claw show the tyrant dinosaurs started out the size of a small dog. THE FIRST KNOWN fossils of baby tyrannosaurs reveal that some of the largest predators ever to stalk the Earth started life about the size of a Chihuahua—with a really long tail.
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Dinosaur Unearthed in Argentina Could Be Largest Land Animal Ever
The skeleton is still far from complete but paleontologists say what they've found suggests the dinosaur may be more than 120 feet long
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Scientists Have Described a Dinosaur's Butthole in Exquisite Detail
When a dog-sized Psittacosaurus was living out its days on Earth, it was probably concerned with mating, eating, and not being killed by other dinosaurs. It would never even have crossed its mind that, 120 million or so years later, scientists would
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The Top Ten Dinosaur Discoveries of 2020
Paleontologists uncovered a great deal about the “terrible lizards” this year
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