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Dinosaurs aren't all big and scaly. The more fossils they find, and the closer they examine them, the more scientists realize how diverse these animals were. Sure, some were massive. Some took to the air on giant wings. Delete the scoop?
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Fossilized guts reveal that Microraptor -- a four-winged flying dinosaur -- had a taste for fish. Delete the scoop?
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New work in Argentina where scientists had previously thought Earth's first grasslands emerged 38 million years ago, shows the area at the time covered with tropical forests rich with palms, bamboos and gingers. Delete the scoop?
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A healed scar suggests a duckbill dinosaur was attacked by a T. rex and survived. Delete the scoop?
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Spielberg's were big, green and scaly. The real ones? They were often rosy, yellow, orange, iridescent, covered with fuzz, plumes, or feathers. Take a look at this latest take on the Jurassic, when reptiles, we think, looked more like rainbows. Delete the scoop?
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Were enigmatic, 230-million-year-old burrows created by dinosaurs? Delete the scoop?
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US customs officials have seized a dinosaur skull worth up to £248,000 from a house in Wyoming. Delete the scoop?
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The dinosaur would've been dog-size with a 5-foot-long tail, living some 245 million years ago. Delete the scoop?
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New evidence points to two ancestral canyons, with the western canyon dating back to 70 million years ago. Delete the scoop?
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Was the early bird Archaeopteryx more of a glider than a flier? Delete the scoop?
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Gigantspinosaurus had enormous shoulder spikes, but what were these ornaments used for? Delete the scoop?
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New research shows that the ancestors of both dinosaurs and humans are from Africa. Does Africa possess a special power for evolving consequential species? Continue reading → Delete the scoop?
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Remains of an extinct giant camel have been discovered on Ellesmere Island in Canada's High Arctic. Delete the scoop?
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A paleontologist and his team have discovered a new species of herbivorous dinosaur and published the first fossil evidence of prehistoric crocodyliforms feeding on small dinosaurs. Delete the scoop?
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An asteroid slamming into Earth 66 million years ago was a contributing factor but not the only culprit in the dinosaurs' extinction. Delete the scoop?
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India's first dinosaur fossil rediscover...The recovery of Titanosaurus Indicus, or the India...The missing dinosaur, untraceable for nearly a ce...The fossil was originally discovered by W.H. Sleem...However, it was only half a ...
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In modern ecosystems, animals flourish amid lush vegetation. That was true 150 million years ago too, says a new study by paleontologists. Delete the scoop?
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A new study of the brain anatomy of therizinosaurs, plant-eating dinosaurs that lived during the Cretaceous Period, has revealed interesting links with their notorious meat-eating 'cousins' Tyrannosaurus rex and Velociraptor. Delete the scoop?
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The long-necked sauropod dinosaurs were the largest land animals ever to walk the Earth -- but why were they so large? A decade ago, a team of plant ecologists from South Africa suggested that this was due to the nature of the plant food they ate. Delete the scoop?
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Scientists have discovered a new dinosaur with a large prominent nose in northern Mexico, which lived about 73-million-years ago. Delete the scoop?
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A team of paleontologists thinks it may have identified the earliest known dinosaur—a creature no bigger than a Labrador retriever that lived about 243 million years ago. Delete the scoop?
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Were these Late Cretaceous dinosaurs just the culmination of an evolutionary trend towards ever-larger body size or was something else at work? Delete the scoop?
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A set of partial jaws hold an important place in the history of South American paleontology, but what sort of dinosaur do they represent? Delete the scoop?
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