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Scientists Discover New Dinosaur Species with Bird-Like Sleeping Position
At a Glance A team of scientists from Hokkaido University, the Hokkaido University Museum, North Carolina State University,…
Jurassic Park: why we’re still struggling to realise it 30 years on
Rattana/Shutterstock Tiffany Shea Slater, University College Cork and Maria McNamara, University College Cork Jurassic Park is arguably the…
The Tale of South America’s Extinct Cave Excavators
Imagine setting foot in South America and seeing mountainside caves sprinkled across the continent; some stretch far beneath…
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…