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Study: Dinosaurs’ Free-Range Parenting Strategy Fundamentally Reshaped Mesozoic World
University of Maryland paleontologist Thomas R. Holtz Jr. has spent decades puzzling over how dinosaurs fit into their ancient worlds — and how those worlds differ from our own. His latest research reveals that scientists may have missed…
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This Bus-Sized Predator Hunted in Dinosaur-Era Rivers
Mosasaurs were enormous reptiles best known for ruling ancient oceans more than 66 million years ago, but new evidence suggests some also lived in rivers. Scientists reached this conclusion after analyzing a mosasaur tooth discovered in North…
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Dinosaur bones found almost on top of each other in Transylvania
The Hațeg Basin in Transylvania has long been known around the world for its dinosaur fossils, uncovered at dozens of sites over the last hundred years. Even so, complete dinosaur discoveries are usually uncommon across the region. That pattern…
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The Taste of Prehistory
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Imagining Neanderthal cuisine, we approached chef Josh Lewin, cofounder of
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Eat Like a Neanderthal
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Roughly 120,000 years ago, in what would someday be Spain, a group of…
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Scientists Extract Metabolic Molecules From Million-Year-Old Fossils for the First Time
Fossils can reveal far more than the shapes of ancient creatures. Molecules preserved inside old animal bones provide clues about past diseases, what those animals ate, and the climates they lived in. For the first time, researchers have examined…
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Marine snow fuels an opportunistic small food web in the Late Ordovician Soom Shale Lagerstätte
Gabbott, S. E., Browning, C., Theron, J. N. & Whittle, R. J. The late Ordovician Soom Shale Lagerstätte: an extraordinary post-glacial fossil and sedimentary record. J. Geol. Soc. 174, 1–9 (2017).
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Ancient sewers expose a hidden health crisis in Roman Britain
Scientists studying ancient sewer drains at the Roman fort of Vindolanda, located near Hadrian’s Wall, have uncovered evidence that the people living there were infected with three different intestinal parasites: roundworm, whipworm, and Giardia…
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Feathered Dinosaurs That Didn’t Fly Challenge Long-Held Ideas About Wing Evolution
A rare dinosaur discovery sheds new light on the evolution of flight. Fossils of dinosaurs found with well-preserved feathers suggest that some of these animals were no longer capable of flight. The researchers explain that even a detail as…
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