dinosaurs
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What Jurassic World Dominion Gets Wrong About Dinosaurs, According to a Palaeontologist
Almost 30 years after Jurassic Park first screened, the beloved franchise is back with its latest film, Jurassic World Dominion.
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Can We Tell if a Skeleton Is From an Adult Dinosaur or a Child Dinosaur?
There are a couple of ways we can try to tell how old a dinosaur was when it died.
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Your New Favourite Plant: Maidenhair Trees Were Dinosaur Food and Hiroshima Bomb Survivors
Most of us are captivated by the thought of a “living fossil”, which is any organism that appeared millions of years ago in the fossil record and survives today, relatively unchanged. The maidenhair tree, Ginkgo biloba, ticks all the boxes of this definition. The genus Ginkgo is well known in China and Japan where it…
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New Triceratops Relative Found on Ted Turner’s Ranch in New Mexico
The reanalysis of a fossil found more than 20 years ago in New Mexico has resulted in the discovery of an entirely new species of horned dinosaur. Named Sierraceratops turneri, the Cretaceous beast is a sign that dinosaurs were more diverse than we thought — and that many new species are still waiting to be…