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Why Do Giant Animals Keep Showing Up?
Dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and even today’s elephants and whales—the world seems to always return to allowing giant animals to…
Bridging the Gap: A Look at Transitional Fossils
Ever find yourself on a border between two distinct cities? The city behind you may have its distinct…
The Dinosaurs Weren’t Wiped Out All at Once (In Fact, They Weren’t Wiped Out at All)
On that fateful day 65 million years ago, the dinosaurs saw a sight that left a mark in…
Holes in baby dinosaur bones show how football-sized hatchlings grew to 3-tonne teens
Shutterstock Roger S. Seymour, University of Adelaide Despite their public image as torpid, lumbering creatures, many dinosaurs were…
What’s Up With That Pterosaur’s Teeth?
Lusognathus almadrava is a new pterosaur whose fossils were discovered in Portugal seem a bit bizarre for the…
Life Almost Lost All Its Oxygen—And We May Be In For a Repeat
Hundreds of millions of years ago, a string of seemingly minor events coalesced into a major shift that…
Pollen in pee: fossilised urine from a small African mammal helps us understand past environments
The lessons pollen can teach us are not to be sneezed at. Elisa Manzati Lynne Quick, Nelson Mandela…
Here’s the Dinosaurs Your Childhood Book Didn’t Talk About.
You will be familiar with T. rex, Triceratops, and even Stegosaurus. There are hundreds more of perhaps lesser-known…
Dinosaur tracksite in Lesotho: how a wrong turn led to an exciting find
An artistic impression of the various dinosaur species that once roamed the Roma Valley. Akhil Rampersadh Miengah Abrahams,…
All Non-Avian Dinosaurs Died From the Asteroid 65 Million Years Ago. How Did Crocodiles Make It Out Alive?
Surprisingly enough, the closest living relatives to all dinosaurs—and, by extension, all living birds—are the crocodilians. Despite this,…