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Dinosaurs & Paleontology
Discover dinosaurs and prehistoric life through fossils, paleontology, evolutionary evidence and major finds from the Jurassic and Cretaceous.
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Discovered super rare fossils of long-necked dinosaurs related to T-rex
In Victoria, Australia, archaeologists discovered fossils of a long-necked dinosaur, thought to evolve into a plant-eating species from their predato…
Not the T-Rex with the 'death bite', this is the prehistoric champion predator
Scientists have just discovered the surprising fact that Velociraptors are dinosaurs
Leedsichthys: The 'vacuum cleaner' of the Jurassic Sea was once misunderstood as a dinosaur
Leedsichthys is a giant fish of the Pachycormidae family, a group of Mesozoic bony fish that lived in the mid-Jurassic oceans.
The new finding may help explain why the T-Rex dinosaur has very small arms
Why is the T-Rex dinosaur having two undeveloped arms still a question that scientists are seeking to answer.
Discover tiny tiny dinosaurs with Jurassic hair
Researchers have discovered a small dinosaur with new feathers but not known to fly in the Jurassic period (145.5-199.6 million years ago).
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Things you didn't know about dinosaurs
Dinosaurs are among the most famous ancient creatures on Earth, with countless fascinating mysteries that are still being uncovered today.
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This bizarre, giant dinosaur had the shape of a... hedgehog.
Of all the dinosaurs known to humankind, Augustinia is considered one of the most bizarre-looking.
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Stunning amber deposits preserve insects from the time of the dinosaurs
A sand mine in Ecuador has unearthed the first amber in South America containing biological elements, including spider webs and a collection of mosquitoes, beetles, flie…
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How did dinosaurs sound?
We have the chance to listen to the real sounds of dinosaurs in the 21st century.
Archeology
15m long monster never seen before 'rises' in the middle of the Egyptian desert
A new member of the largest family of monsters to ever walk the continents has been found in an oasis in the Western Desert of Egypt.
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Flash flood accidentally reveals 'heavenly treasure': So rare that it shocked China and the world!
Rarely found anywhere else in the world
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New research reveals the cause of the mass death of dinosaurs
A newly published study has shared the latest evidence about what killed the dinosaurs.
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The meteorite that wiped out the dinosaurs created a 1.5km high wave, 30,000 times stronger than the strongest tsunami in history.
66 million years ago, a giant meteorite crashed into Earth, transforming life on the planet, wiping out the dinosaurs and ushering in a new era in biology.
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Can you survive a T-Rex by standing still?
In the movie it seems to work, but can we really fool a T-Rex just by not being silent?
Archeology
Jurassic fossils discovered Jurassic sea 10m long
Paleontologists found a 150 million-year-old fossil of a giant predator sea reptile in southern Poland.
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For the first time, an autopsy of the most complete T-Rex dinosaur
To answer all questions so far, scientists decided to conduct a first autopsy in history, on the most complete copy of the T-Rex dinosaur.
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What effect does the legendary T-rex dinosaur's arm have?
One of the most terrifying creatures that ever existed in Earth's history is the tyrant dinosaur (tyrannosaurus rex), or T-rex.
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The T-Rex tyrant dinosaur has a homophobic behavior
The skeleton of a tyrannical dinosaur has provided scientists with clear evidence of a long-held hypothesis: T-Rex dinosaurs and its relatives are fierce animals with ep…
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New research on the steps of T-Rex tyrant dinosaurs
Scientists have added a fake tail to the chicken to learn about the movement of this carnivorous dinosaur.
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What about the 'Jurassic park' experiment if replacing dinosaurs with mosquitoes?
Release genetically modified mosquitoes into the wild to reduce the number of mosquito bites in Florida, USA, but many scientists fear will become experiments such as 'J…
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Detecting Jurassic dinosaur bones
The skeleton of a new dinosaur, appearing on Earth about 195 million years ago, has just been discovered in South Africa.
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Sea dragon fossils dominate the Jurassic ocean
Fossil researchers in England found two new giant reptiles, dubbed
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New discovery: Dinosaurs are not cold-blooded!
Dinosaurs are not cold-blooded animals as we previously thought, but they have the same body temperature as today's birds and mammals.
Archeology
Discovered the world's oldest fossil dinosaur fins
Fossils dating to about 168 million years old were excavated by scientists recently.
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Detection of extremely rare dinosaur fossils in the UK
British scientists have discovered an extremely rare fossil of sauropod dinosaurs, a giant reptile group eating plants that existed during Jurassic period. Fossils date…