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How does a one-tonne dino hatch its eggs?

This figure shows microwear patterns on the teeth of three theropods.

Dinosaurs’ tooth wear sheds light on their predatory lives

A scene from 232 million years ago, during the Carnian Pluvial Episode after which dinosaurs took over.

Dinosaurs ended – and originated – with a bang!

Teeth from the Gadoufaoua deposit (Niger). The scale bar represents 2 cm. From left to right: teeth of a giant crocodile, Sarcosuchus imperator, a spinosaurid, a non-spinosaurid theropod (abelisaurid or carcharodontosaurid), a pterosaur, a hadrosaurid (a herbivorous dinosaur), a pycnodont (fish), and a small crocodylomorph.

The dinosaur menu, as revealed by calcium

The 170 million-year-old tracks were made in a muddy lagoon off the north-east coast of what is now the Isle of Skye Credit: University of Edinburgh/PA Wire

World’s largest dinosaur found in Scotland

Dinosaur

New Patagonian predator sheds light on mysterious meat-eating dinosaur group

Back at the lab, the researchers found the fossil glowed under a black light

Researchers investigate ‘baby’ tyrannosaur fossil unearthed in Montana

Arkansaurus fridayi

New Ornithomimosaur from Arkansas Described

Teleocrater, an early dinosaur relative, is shown feeding on Cynognathus, while hippo-like dicynodonts look on. All of these animals lived in the mid-Triassic of Tanzania, about 240 million years ago.

Decade of fossil collecting gives new perspective on Triassic period, emergence...

Head of Nasutoceratops.

Dinosaur frills and horns did not evolve for species recognition

Undead T. rex.

The curse of zombie fossils

The Munich specimen of the transitional bird Archaeopteryx. It preserves a partial skull (top left), shoulder girdle and both wings slightly raised up (most left to center left), the ribcage (center), and the pelvic girdle and both legs in a 'cycling' posture (right); all connected by the vertebral column from the neck (top left, under the skull) to the tip of the tail (most right). Imprints of its wing feathers are visible radiating from below the shoulder and vague imprints of the tail plumage can be recognized extending from the tip of the tail.

The early bird got to fly: Archaeopteryx was an active flyer

Some of the Moroccan pterosaur fossils from the study.

Pterosaurs went out with a bang, not a whimper

The eruption of Alaska’s Pavlof Volcano as seen from the International Space Station May 18, 2013.

Ash from dinosaur-era volcanoes linked with shale oil, gas

Euoplocephalus

Flipside of a dinosaur mystery: ‘Bloat-and-float’ explains belly-up ankylosaur fossils

Ground-running bird model may predict bipedal dinosaur locomotion.

Locomotion of bipedal dinosaurs might be predicted from that of ground-running...

Colored and black points mark the global distribution of mid-ocean ridges, with ages of 66 million years ago created at spreading rates above and below 35 millimeters a year, respectively.

A one-two punch may have helped deck the dinosaurs

Mansourasaurus, New Egyptian dinosaur

Rare dinosaur discovery in Egypt could signal more finds

Exhibit Museum Replica Urtier Prehistoric Times

Dinosaurs were ‘too successful for their own good’

Wahlisaurus massarae

Rare ichthyosaur is only second known example

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