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The Day the Dinosaurs Died
A young paleontologist may have discovered a record of the most significant event in the history of life on Earth.
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Even dinosaurs had lice, fossils entombed in amber reveal
100-million-year-old insects that fed on feathers are the oldest licelike fossils known
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Newly Discovered Fossil Bird Fills in Gap Between Dinosaurs and Modern Fliers
A skeleton from the Cretaceous found in Japan reveals an early bird with a tail nub resembling the avians of today
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Scientists have found a new Aussie pterosaur and it's terrifying
Australian researchers have found a new species of pterosaur in outback Queensland.
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T. Rex had an air conditioner in its head, study suggests
Tyrannosaurus rex, one of the largest meat-eating dinosaurs on the planet, had an air conditioner in its head, suggest scientists who are challenging over a century of previous beliefs.
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New species of dinosaur discovered after decades in museum
A new species of dinosaur has been discovered, after being misidentified and kept in a museum collection for several decades.
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California college student discovers 65-million-year-old Triceratops skull
A Triceratops fossil was uncovered by a UC Merced student and an experienced excavator in the Badlands of North Dakota.
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College student unearths 65 million-year-old Triceratops skull
A college student made the discovery of a lifetime on a recent paleontology dig when he unearthed a partial Triceratops skull.
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The Biggest Animals from Each Period of Earth's History
If you ever wondered what were the biggest animals from each period of Earth's history, here’s an article we made just for your reading!
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A giant species of trilobite inhabited Australian waters half a billion years ago
There is evidence to show this monster of the ancient sea was a cannibal, feeding on its own kind.
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In a first, fossil bird found with unlaid egg
About 115 million years ago in what's now northwest China, a female bird was on the verge of motherhood. But somehow, her life on an ancient lakeshore took a traumatic turn, triggering a pregnancy complication that killed the egg forming inside her and may have even led to her death.
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A New Species of Tiny Tyrannosaur Helps Explain the Rise of T. rex
Scientists have discovered a new species of tiny tyrannosaur that lived some 95 million years ago in what’s now Utah. The find helps fill a frustrating gap in the fossil record at a critical time when tyrannosaurs were evolving from small, speedy hunters, into the bone-crushing apex predators we know so well. The new dinosaur has been dubbed Moros intrepidus, and its name means “harbinger of doom.” The creature, known only from a leg bone and some various teeth, weighed under 200 pounds as a fully-grown adult. It was a specialist predator and scientists say it was fast enough to easily run down prey while avoiding other meat-eaters.
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Dinosaurs' noses may have air-conditioned their brains
The earth was a much hotter place in prehistoric times, so it follows that large heavily-armored dinosaurs likely retained a lot of heat in their bodies. A new study suggests that their brains were protected from overheating, however, thanks to a heat exchanging system in their noses.
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Scientists Are Excited Over These 'Weird' Feathers Preserved in 100-Million-Year-Old Amber
Feathers found in Burmese amber dating back 100 million years are so exquisitely preserved that palaeontologists have been able to make a detailed study of their structure - and they're like nothing seen in living birds today.
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Earliest piranha-like fish found
Scientists have unearthed the fossilised remains of a piranha-like species that they say is the earliest known example of a flesh-eating fish. This bony creature, found in South Germany, lived about 150 million years ago and had the distinctive sharp teeth of modern-day piranhas. These Jurassic marauders used their razor teeth to tear chunks of flesh and fins off other fish.
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Before the dinosaurs, a million-year long volcanic eruption destroyed the ozone layer
It's known as the "Great Dying," an extinction event even more powerful than the one that killed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. It's called the Permian-Triassic extinction event, and it took place 250 million years ago, before dinosaurs ruled the Earth. Scientists previously believed the Permian-Triassic extinction event happened because of a volcanic eruption. And not just any volcanic eruption... the volcanic eruption. Called the "Siberian Flood Basalts," this million-year-long volcanic eruption potentially caused the extinction of up to 96 percent of marine life, along with 70 percent of terrestrial vertebrate species.
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Mysterious, Plant-Like Fossil May Have Been One of the Earliest Animals
New research suggests that soft-bodied organisms called Ediacarans may have been related to an animal of the Cambrian era
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T. Rex Couldn't Stick Out Its Tongue
With its tongue attached to the bottom of its mouth, the dinosaur probably ate like modern crocodiles
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Birds had to relearn flight after meteor wiped out dinosaurs
Fossil records suggest only flightless birds survived when T rex was wiped off the Earth
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Earth’s Orbital Changes Have Influenced Climate, Life Forms For at Least 215 Million Years
Every 405,000 years, gravitational tugs from Jupiter and Venus slightly elongate Earth’s orbit, an amazingly consistent pattern that has influenced our planet’s climate for at least 215 million years and allows scientists to more precisely date geological events like the spread of dinosaurs, according to a Rutgers-led study.
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