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Wed, 2018-07-11

Paleontology is experiencing a golden age, with a new dinosaur species discovered every 10 days on average. Those inspired by the film Jurass...

Tue, 2018-07-10

According to a study published in the journal Science, the earliest New World dogs were not domesticated from North American wolves; instead, they...

Wed, 2018-07-11

An international team of researchers from Australia, Japan, the United States and Belgium has successfully extracted bright pink biological pigments from 1.1-billion-year-old marine sedimentary rocks of the Taoudeni Basin in Mauritania...

Wed, 2018-07-11

These so-called lessemsaurids lived roughly 237 million to 201 million years ago in present-day Argentina, roughly 47...

Tue, 2018-07-10

There are some incredible animatronic and CGI dinosaurs in J.A. Bayona’s Jurassic Worl...

Wed, 2018-07-11

They are the biggest animals to have walked the Earth, with some weighing as much as a Space Shuttle....

Sun, 2017-10-22

How much do you really know about this horned, frilled behemoth, other than that its plastic model looks cool posed next to your scale-model...

Sat, 2018-07-07

A seasoned paleontologist reveals her favorite fossil-focused spots.

Wed, 2018-07-04

T. rex arms still had musculature, so they weren’t vestigial. Theories as to their use include...

Wed, 2018-07-04

What would happen if we found ourselves sharing a planet with T. rex, velociraptors, and other creatures that had been extinct for tens of millions of years?

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