fossils
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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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Utah Officials Drove Over Important Fossil Site With a Backhoe, Paleontologists Say
Paleontologists and locals familiar with a fossil site in Moab, Utah claim that a backhoe drove over dinosaur footprints and other animal trackways, damaging or destroying them. The Utah Bureau of Land Management, which is responsible for protecting Mill Canyon Track Site, has said that its recent dismantling of a wooden boardwalk there caused no…
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Secrets of New Zealand’s Extinct Marine Reptiles Revealed 150 Years After Fossil Discovery
New Zealand’s fossil record of land dinosaurs is poor, with just a few bones, but the collection of ancient extinct marine reptiles is remarkable, including shark-like mosasaurs and long-necked plesiosaurs. Plesiosaurs first appeared in the fossil record around 200 million years ago and died off, alongside dinosaurs, 66 million years ago. They are best known…
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There Were Billions of T-rexes, and 9 Other Things You Never Knew About Dinosaurs
Dinosaurs have been extinct for over 65 million years, but scientists just can’t let them rest in their colossal graves. Instead, they’re digging up fossils, conducting research, and otherwise changing our understanding of dinosaur biology and culture. Please enjoy these ten newly discovered facts and theories about the humungous monstrosities that once shook the earth.