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Original artwork from scientific illustrator Emiliano Troco depicting a Brontosaurus (likely the most famous sauropod dinosaur) acting as an ecosystem engineer in a warm and vegetated landscape not dissimilar to modern-day savannah type biomes.
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Sauropod dinosaurs were restricted to warmer regions of Earth

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Life reconstruction of a close-to-hatching oviraptorosaur dinosaur embryo, based on the new specimen “Baby Yingliang.” Credit: Lida Xing
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Exquisitely preserved embryo found inside fossilized dinosaur egg

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Living reconstruction of Issi saaneq / Photo: Victor Beccari
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‘Cold bone’: Researchers discover first dinosaur species that lived on Greenland...

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Long neck, long tail, tiny head, tiny teeth. These iconic, gargantuan dinosaurs developed a wholly unique dining strategy to support their massive size. Image by Stephanie Abramowicz, courtesy of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (NHM).
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Tooth Fast, Tooth Curious?

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Brighstoneus simmondsi reconstruction. Credit: John Sibbick
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New species of iguanodontian dinosaur discovered from Isle of Wight

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Laser-stimulated fluorescence imaging of a pterosaur fossil reveals flight-related soft tissues. The imaging revealed a muscular wing root fairing that smooths airflow around the wing-body junction and reduces drag, as in the wing root fairings of modern aeroplanes. (Image credit: Michael Pittman)
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Muscular wing-body junction improved Pterosaur flight performance

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A closeup view of the Flyby Trike’s occipital condyle bone — nicknamed the “trailer hitch” — the ball on the back of the skull that connects to neck vertebrae.Rachel Ormiston/Burke Museum/University of Washington
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Four dinosaurs discovered in Montana

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Fig. 1. Cretapsara athanata Luque gen. et sp. nov., a modern-looking eubrachyuran crab in Burmese amber. (A to D) Holotype LYAM-9. (A) Whole amber sample with crab inclusion in ventral view. (B) Close-up of ventral carapace. (C) Whole amber sample with crab inclusion in dorsal view. (D) Close-up of dorsal carapace. White arrows in (B) and (D) indicate the detached left fifth leg or pereopod. Photos by L.X. Figure by J.L.
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First dinosaur era crab fully preserved in amber discovered

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Image: Artists impression of newly identified species Credit: Anthony Hutchings
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Two new species of large predatory dinosaur discovered on Isle of...

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Life reconstruction of herbivorous dinosaurs based on 220-million-year-old fossil footprints from Ipswich, Queensland, Australia. (Image credit: Anthony Romilio)
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‘Raptor-like’ dinosaur discovered in Australian mine, actually uncovered as a timid...

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Artist’s impression of Spinosaurus. Credit: Davide Bonadonna
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Early dinosaurs may have lived in social herds as early as...

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Ecological changes following intense volcanic activity 230 million years ago paved the way for dinosaur dominance
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Dinosaurs’ ascent driven by volcanoes powering climate change

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The extinction of their competitors allowed snakes to move into new niches and diversify enormously (Credit: Joschua Knüppe).
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Modern snakes evolved from a few survivors of dino-killing asteroid

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University of Tsukuba researchers have described a new apex predator from the lower Upper Cretaceous of Central Asia, Ulughbegsaurus uzbekistanensis, which coexisted with a smaller tyrannosauroid
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Who was king before Tyrannosaurus? Uzbek fossil reveals new top dino

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Early lineages of mammal like this large Gobiconodon from Mongolia, outcompeted the ancestors of modern mammals in the time of dinosaurs. Credit: Corbin Rainbolt
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Mammals in the time of dinosaurs held each other back

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Hesperornis image provided by the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. (Photo: Robert Lorenz)Hesperornis image provided by the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. (Photo: Robert Lorenz)
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What can a dinosaur’s inner ear tell us? Just listen

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"Hollywood" specimen, same species as Teratophoneus, discovered approximately two miles north of the "Rainbows and Unicorns Quarry" on Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. Credit: U.S. Bureau of Land Management
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Fearsome tyrannosaurs were social animals, study shows

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Over approximately 2.5 million years, North America likely hosted 2.5 billion Tyrannosaurus rexes, a minuscule proportion of which have been dug up and studied by paleontologists, according to a UC Berkeley study. (Image by Julius Csotonyi, courtesy of Science magazine)
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How many T. rexes were there? Billions

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The world's smallest stegosaur footprint (less than 6 cm long), Xingjiang, China. Photo credit - Lida Xing.
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Tiny cat-sized stegosaur leaves its mark

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Skeletons of four tyrannosaurid specimens tested in the study. Clockwise from above left: adult Tyrannosaurus rex “Sue” (FMNH PR 2081) (Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL; photo by the Field Museum), juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex “Jane” (BMRP 2002.4.1) (Burpee Museum of Natural History; photo by A. Rowe), adult Tarbosaurus bataar (Dinosaurium exhibition, Prague, Czech Republic; photo by R. Holiš) and Raptorex kriegsteini skeletal reconstruction (LH PV18) (Long Hao Institute of Geology and Paleontology, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China; photo by P. Sereno). Credit: Listed in caption. Final image by Andre Rowe
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Younger Tyrannosaurus Rex bites were less ferocious than their adult counterparts

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