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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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Getting under a fossil's skin: how CT scans have changed palaeontology
Scanning is leading to huge breakthroughs. For example, we’ve now found the world’s oldest chameleons and know why giant wombats were air-heads
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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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Finally, You Can See Dinosaurs in All Their Feathered Glory
A new exhibit in New York challenges the popular view of dinos as green, scaly beasts and showcases their links to today's birds.
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Dinosaurs weren’t driven to extinction by that meteorite after all
It's the most dramatic mass extinction in the history of Earth. About 66 million years ago, a giant meteorite smashed into the Gulf of Mexico, sending toxic gases into the atmosphere and causing extreme climate change that wiped out most dinosaurs. Except that's not the whole story. Mass extinction, like modern love, is complicated. A new study from a group of UK researchers reveals that most dinosaur clades were already in...
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10 Strange-Looking Prehistoric Animals
Take a close look at some of the strangest-looking animals evolution has created.
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New Discovery Expands the Hobbit Family Tree
Fossil finds are challenging our understanding of the diminutive hominins discovered in Indonesia in 2003.
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Did Women and Children Exist in Prehistory?
Mother Nature doesn’t play fair when it comes to the preservation of archaeological remains.
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Ancient Deep Skull still holds big surprises 60 years after it was unearthed
Another look at a skull unearthed in Malaysian Borneo 60 years ago can shed light on the mystery of how early humans moved throughout Southeast Asia thousands of years ago.
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Extreme Fossil Hunters Dig the Dirt in Antarctica
Antarctica is home to one of the most unforgiving climates on the planet, but the fossils here could tell an important story. By Nathaniel Scharping. (May 11, 2016)
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Dinosaurs Literally Reshaped The Planet
Dinos didn't just leave behind footprints and fossil bones—they also changed the landscapes in which they lived
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Over 242 Million Years Old Dino
Partial skeleton fossil of a dinosaur that lived 242–247.2 million years ago, discovered in Guizhou, China
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A huge wooden circle has been found buried just a few kilometres from Stonehenge
Last year, archaeologists made headlines when they found evidence of a giant circular structure around five times the size of Stonehenge, located just 3.2 km (2 miles) northeast of the famous site.
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World's oldest known fossils push evidence for life back by 220 million years
The oldest fossils known to date have been discovered in 3.7 billion-year-old rocks in Greenland by an Australian-led team of researchers.
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New pterosaur fossil shows birds and winged dinosaurs flew side-by-side
Some pterosaurs were the largest flying animals ever seen on Earth. These extinct flying reptiles that lived above the dinosaurs' heads could grow wingspans of up to 11 metres and dominated the skies of the late Cretaceous period, the last age of...
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Palaeontologists uncover giant kangaroo in north Queensland
Palaeontologists have potentially uncovered a new giant species of kangaroo in north Queensland. A mine west of Mackay, in north Queensland, initially came to the attention of palaeontologists back in 2008 when traditional owners discovered an unusual bone. Since then, using hammers, chisels and brushes, palaeontologists have since come across wide range of fossils dating back to more than 30,000 years ago.
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Amazing ‘Nesting Doll’ Fossil Reveals Bug in Lizard in Snake
Forty-eight million years ago, an iguana relative living in what’s now Germany scarfed down an insect with a shimmering exoskeleton. Soon thereafter the lizard’s luck changed—when a juvenile snake gulped it down headfirst. We know this happened because the snake had the spectacularly bad luck to end up in a death trap: the nearby Messel Pit, a volcanic lake with toxic deep waters and a possible knack for belching out asphyxiating clouds of carbon dioxide.
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Scientists reveal most accurate depiction of a dinosaur ever created
Forty researchers elbow their way to the front of the room. They whip out their cameras and mobile phones like palaeontological-paparazzi, and start snapping. Others hang back, hands on chins, to take in the animal standing on the table-top from different angles. They dispense approving nods, and converge to discuss their conclusions in hushed tones. It’s not like anything seen alive on Earth today: it’s the size of large turkey, but with a face like a Jim Henson puppet. The head is a shoe-box with eyes, the Frankensteinian flatness on top accentuated by horns sticking out horizontally from each cheek.
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Paleontologists Link Dinosaur, Bird Reproduction
A recent theory by paleontologists at Montana State University suggests that the nesting habits of some Mesozoic-era dinosaurs further bolsters the theory that all birds, from the majestic bald eagles of Yellowstone National Park to robins nesting in backyards across Montana, evolved from dinosaurs that lived millions of years ago.
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World's Largest Dinosaur Footprint Found In Mongolian Desert
A team of Japanese and Mongolian paleontologists have discovered the largest dinosaur footprint ever found in the Mongolian desert. The footprint is as big as a fully grown person, measuring 42 inches long and 30 inches wide. It belongs to the Titanosaur, a dinosaur who, as its name suggests, was very, very large. Titanosaurs roamed the Earth about 70 to 90 million years ago.
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