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The Spinosaurus is a Dinosaur-Sized Mystery
Two years after a controversial paper claimed to reconstruct the carnivorous beast, it remains one of the most enigmatic puzzles of paleontology.
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All Those New Dinosaurs May Not Be New — Or Dinosaurs
Michael Benton, professor of vertebrate paleontology at the University of Bristol in England, says a new dinosaur species is named about once a week, on average.
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Scientists have grown 'dinosaur legs' on a chicken for the first time
Until very recently, one of the biggest myths in science was that all dinosaurs have been extinct for the past 65 million years. But thanks to new fossil discoveries that filled in our knowledge about avian dinosaurs, we now know that only some dinosaurs went extinct following an asteroid collision with Earth - others survived and gave rise to the birds we live with today. To figure out how this evolution occurred, researchers in Chile have...
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Scientists gear up to drill into ‘ground zero’ of the impact that killed the dinosaurs
This month, a drilling platform will rise in the Gulf of Mexico, but it won’t be aiming for oil. Scientists will try to sink a diamond-tipped bit into the heart of Chicxulub crater—the buried remnant of the asteroid impact 66 million years ago that killed off the dinosaurs, along with most other life on the planet. They hope that the retrieved rock cores will contain clues to how life came back in the wake of the cataclysm, and whether the crater itself...
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360° Attenborough and the Giant Dinosaur
David Attenborough meets the biggest animal ever to walk the Earth, in 360 - a Titanosaur.
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The reign of the terror birds
Meet the scariest birds you can imagine, scaled up to nightmarish proportions
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New clues to the past in Nevada's desert fossils
Scientific inquiry is a process of constant revision. And revision is where the most intriguing discoveries happen.
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New Species of Jurassic Dinosaur Discovered in Wales
Amateur archaeologists found the bones of the creature in the debris of a rock slide, next to a cliff face close to the Glamorganshire Golf Club. The discovery marks the first time a Jurassic era dinosaur has been unearthed in Wales.
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Found: an ancient crocodile as long as a bus
The largest ever sea-dwelling crocodile has been uncovered in Tunisia. It was longer than a great white shark and its skull was as big as a person.
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Spinosaurus Devoured Meals Like a Giant Pelican
A new study of the jaws of Spinosaurus indicates that it may have eaten its prey much like a giant pelican or modern snakes.
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Signs of a mass Extinction behind a shopping centre in New Jersey
Pit contains remains of dinosaurs from 66 million years ago
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Pterosaurs Aren’t Actually Dinosaurs, but They Are Actually Awesome
We tend to forget that while T. rex, Triceratops, Diplodocus, and the like were lumbering across the land, the air above was thick with volant reptiles.
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Paleontologists Find a Surprise in Ancient Vomit
By picking through ancient puke, scientists found an oddball reptile.
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Dinosaur Blood Vessels Survived 80 Million Years Without Fossilizing
Tiny, delicate vessels that carried blood through a duck-billed dinosaur 80 million years ago never fossilized and still contain the beast's tissue, a new study finds.
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Dinosaur Erotica Novels Are A Real Thing
As well-read as you may be, you’ve probably never heard of this obscure subgenre before.
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Episode 660: The T-Rex In My Backyard
There's a boom going on for dinosaur bones, a veritable gold rush for fossils buried in the badlands of North Dakota, Wyoming and Montana. Today on the show: the T-Rex that started it all.
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Fossilised eggshells help crack the mystery of how dinosaurs kept warm
We’re slowly getting used to the idea that some dinosaurs may have looked more like birds than reptiles. But there’s been a long-running debate about what dinosaurs were like on the inside – and specifically on how they kept warm. Were they warm-blooded like modern birds and mammals, or cold-blooded like modern lizards and crocodiles?
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Measurements of Dinosaur Body Temperatures Shed New Light on 150-Year Debate
Were dinosaurs really fast, aggressive hunters like the ones depicted in the movie "Jurassic World"?
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Did Dinosaurs Really Have Feathers?
At least one entire class of dinosaurs seems to have had feathers -- including velociraptors, and probably T. rex. Find out how we know, and how we even know what color some of them were!
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Rare Dinosaur Footprint Found Near Tumbler Ridge, B.C.
A university student discovered a large and rare dinosaur footprint, in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., from the same family of top predators as the T.Rex.
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