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The Top Ten Dinosaur Discoveries of 2025, From Preserved Blood Vessels to the Return of a Short King
With studies of fossilized bones, gut contents, eggshells and more, paleontologists revealed new and captivating details ...
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Dinosaur eggshells can 'tick' like clocks, revealing deep time
Dinosaur eggshells, once treated as background scenery in fossil digs, have turned out to be some of the most precise ...
These radioactive elements decay at known rates, effectively acting as a built-in clock that reveals precisely when the eggs were buried millions of years ago. This natural timekeeping mechanism has ...
The mystery behind the origins of the dinosaurs may have been given a new twist, with a modeling study suggesting they may ...
Fossils of the oldest long-necked dinosaur that inhabited Earth about 167 million years ago have been unearthed in India that reveal the country was a “major centre of dinosaur evolution”, experts ...
Broken shin bone of a carnivorous dinosaur, showing rings like the rings of a tree. These closely spaced rings were formed annually and indicate a slow-growing, long-lived animal. Credit: Michael D. D ...
The earliest feathered dinosaurs may have evolved their bird-like features while still retaining lizard-like scales on other parts of their body. This theory is based on the discovery of a fossilized ...
A museum display of the giant crocodile Deinosuchus schwimmeri showcases a 30-foot-long apex predator from the Cretaceous ...
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It started with a breakup followed by the inevitable adjustments to a new way of life. The Science Museum’s new exhibition “Ultimate Dinosaurs” tells the story of the breakup of supercontinent Pangaea ...
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