Do multimillion-dollar dinosaur auctions erode trust in science?
Dinosaurs are in the news these days, but it's not just for groundbreaking discoveries.
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Chinese fossil eggs show dinosaur decline before extinction
Nearly 66 million years ago, a large asteroid hit Earth and contributed to the global extinction of dinosaurs, leaving birds as their only living descendants.
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Sep 19, 2022
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When did dinosaurs go extinct? The theories on how it happened and what survived
In the film "Jurassic Park," billionaire John Hammond, played by Richard Attenborough, brings paleontologists Alan Grant, played by Sam Neill, and Ellie Sattler, played by Laura Dern, as well as mathematician Ian Malcolm, ...
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Sep 16, 2022
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Previously unknown species of dinosaur identified in southwestern Germany
Paleontologists at the University of Tübingen's Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment have discovered a hitherto unknown genus and species of dinosaur. Tuebingosaurus maierfritzorum lived about 203 ...
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Sep 8, 2022
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Africa's oldest dinosaur found in Zimbabwe
Scientists in Zimbabwe have discovered the remains of Africa's oldest dinosaur, which roamed the earth around 230 million years ago.
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Sep 3, 2022
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After dinosaurs disappeared, mammals grew bigger at a faster rate and died young
A team of researchers from the U.K., Canada and the U.S., has found evidence suggesting that after the dinosaurs went extinct, the mammals that remained began to grow larger and did so faster—and they died young, too. In ...
High-tech tools reveal opalized fossil skeleton
Paleontologists from Flinders University are using a micro-CT scanner and 3D printing to reconstruct a small dinosaur preserved as opal for more than 100 million years in white sandstone rocks.
Biotechnology
Aug 29, 2022
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Largest dinosaur skeleton in Europe may have been found in Portugal
The remains of what could be the largest dinosaur to be found in Europe are being uncovered in a backyard in Pombal, a city in the central region of Portugal. The remains, that could correspond to a sauropod dinosaur with ...
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Aug 24, 2022
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April the museum dinosaur is still revealing new discoveries
Recent research regarding a dinosaur nicknamed April, previously housed in the UK's Manchester Museum, has revealed rare new findings.
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Aug 18, 2022
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All the better to better eat you with: Dinosaurs evolved different eye socket shapes to allow stronger bites
Large dinosaur predators, such as Tyrannosaurus rex, evolved different shapes of eye sockets to better deal with high bite forces, new research has shown.
Evolution
Aug 11, 2022
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