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Earth’s Biodiversity Bursts Do Not Follow Expected Pattern
Life finds a way. Paleontologists have reiterated that maxim over and over, often drawing from the way organisms seemed to…
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Dire Wolves Were Not Really Wolves, New Genetic Clues Reveal
Dire wolves are iconic beasts. Thousands of these extinct Pleistocene carnivores have been recovered from the La Brea Tar Pits…
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Pterosaur Origins Flap into Focus
For more than 160 million years, pterosaurs soared over the earth. They were as much a part of the Age…
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Why the World’s Biggest Dinosaurs Keep Getting Cut Down to Size
On August 9, 2017, paleontologists at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City unveiled the largest animal…
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A 429-Million-Year-Old Trilobite Had Eyes like Those of Modern Bees
Perfectly pristine fossils might make great museum showpieces, but they are not always the most informative for paleontologists. Some of…
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Fossil Footprints Help Uncover the Mysteries of Bipedal Crocodiles
More than 113 million years ago, a strange reptile lived in what is now South Korea. It strode around on…
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Tiny Tyrant Gets a New Identity
The very last days of the Cretaceous might seem to be the apex of dinosaurian tyranny. After all, the last two…
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Paleontologists on the Trail of “Ghost Tracks”
Sometimes paleontologists uncover ghosts. I don’t mean the spirits of Brontosaurus that I imagined in the gloomy museum halls of…
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Old Stegosaur Alters History of Armored Dinosaurs
The dinosaur was waiting in a box. A label on its container read “Atouguia da Baleia,” a reference to where…
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Stunning Skeleton Reveals Early Carnivorous Dinosaur
Allosaurus, Tyrannosaurus, Giganotosaurus, Carnotaurus, and more. Most every dinosaur fan of any age can rattle off a list of the…
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What Made Dinos Sore? – Scientific American Blog Network
We often imagine dinosaurs in one of two states – in the prime of their lives, or dead, serving as…
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Canada Gets Its First Smilodon
Ice Age mammals loom large in our imagination. It’s easy to envision a complete collection of mammoths, giant camels, short-faced…
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