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An asteroid ended the age of the dinosaurs. But how did their reign begin? Mysterious early reptiles may hold the answer
A small but fierce jawbone sits in Argentina’s natural science museum in Buenos Aires. Six inches long and studded with ...
The “mesozoic cow” was a dinosaur with hundreds of ever-replacing teeth. Here’s how its uniquely adapted skull allowed it to ...
CT scans also indicate Archaeopteryx had nerve endings in the end of its beak—part of what’s known as a bill-tip organ. Again ...
Long before horses thundered across the plains, a plant-eating giant with hooves of its own left footprints in the mud. Newly described fossils of Edmontosaurus annectens—a duck-billed dinosaur that ...
Exactly where and when dinosaurs first evolved are still open questions in paleontology. Exactly where and when dinosaurs first evolved are still open questions in paleontology; it’s hard to even say ...
A newly identified tiny dinosaur, Foskeia pelendonum, is shaking up long-held ideas about how plant-eating dinosaurs evolved.
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