dinosaur
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The Absolute Unit Garzapelta Is Friend-Shaped. Shame It’s Dead
After death, we all run the risk of being forgotten. Such was the case of Garzapelta muelleri, an ancient reptile that lived over 200 million years ago and even went unidentified for 30 years after its bony remains were found. Garzapelta is an aetosaur, a group of archosaurs more closely related to the ancestors of…
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The Coolest Dinosaur-Age Discoveries of 2023
Dinosaurs’ reign on Earth ended explosively (and then dustily, as we’ll mention in this story) when an asteroid slammed into Earth some 66 million years ago. But the dinosaurs—and the diverse ancient creatures they shared the planet with—have kept many secrets locked away in their fossilized remains, secrets which paleontologists work tirelessly to extricate. Here…
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Dust Doomed the Dinos, Scientists Say
We all know how the story goes: a large asteroid falls to Earth from space, slamming into the Yucatán Peninsula with 100 million megatons of force. The impact spawned tsunami waves best measured in miles and kicked up dust, soot, and sulphur that blotted out the Sun, causing the death of about 75% of Earth’s…
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Stupendously Preserved Fossil Shows Mammal Preying on Beaked Dinosaur
About 125 million years ago, a young mammal about the size of a possum bit down on the side of a beaked dinosaur nearly three times its size. The animals died like that, entangled and at odds with each other, a fossilized tableau of the dinosaurian-mammalian power shift that would finally come about 60 million…