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280-Million-Year-Old Fossil Provides Earliest Direct Evidence of Land Predators Attacking Herbivores
Paleontologists at the University of Toronto Mississauga have found dozens of tooth marks on the fossilized bones of three juveniles of Diadectes, one of the earliest large plant-eating vertebrates to walk on land. The scars offer what the…
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When Scientists Are Dinosaurs
Iwasn’t fazed one bit as the tequila hit the table for the third time in an hour.
You see, while I wore the name tag Matt Kaplan, Science Correspondent at The Economist, I had once been a part of this tribe. Long ago they welcomed me as one of…
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Paleontologists Solve the Mystery of a Twisted Jawbone With Sideways Teeth
Years ago, in a dry riverbed in Brazil, paleontologists discovered a strikingly odd fossilized jawbone. Unusually twisted, the jaw featured lower teeth protruding outward and smaller denticles lining the plate. Finding one misshapen jaw might…
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When Scientists Are Dinosaurs
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I wasn’t fazed one bit as the tequila hit the table for the third time in an…
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Rare Fossil of Baby Dome-Headed Dinosaur Unearthed in Canada
For many years, the fossil record of pachycephalosaurs (dome-headed dinosaurs) has been dominated by fossilized skulls. The postcranial material of young pachycephalosaurs, by contrast, has remained almost entirely unknown. Paleontologists…
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After Earth’s Greatest Extinction, These Sea Monsters Conquered the Oceans
Lost fossils reveal that some of the first ocean predators went global astonishingly fast after Earth’s worst extinction. Roughly 250 million years ago, a part of northwestern Australia that is now an arid desert sat beside a shallow bay…
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New “Hell Heron” Spinosaurus Discovered in the Sahara With Giant Blade Crest
A blade-crested Spinosaurus discovered in the Sahara is rewriting the final chapter of dinosaur evolution. A study published in Science reports the discovery of Spinosaurus mirabilis, a newly identified spinosaurid species from Niger. The fossils…
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Scientists Just Solved the Mystery of Triceratops’ Giant Nose
Triceratops’ enormous nose may have been a built-in cooling system for its massive head. Triceratops and other horned dinosaurs had remarkably large nasal cavities compared with most animals. To understand what filled that space, researchers,…
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