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The Dinosaurs, Ranked
Scaly, feathered, toothed, or beaked—long-necked, spike-tailed, tiny, or gargantuan—dinosaurs are a wildly diverse group. But certain dinos stand above the rest, both literally and on the plinth of our imagination. Here’s my definitive ranking of the best dinosaurs; I’ll be mightily impressed if you’ve heard of every creature on this list. 13. Tarbosaurus Let’s get…
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The Clumsy, the Weird, the Gross: These Fossils Reveal How Extinct Animals Really Lived
We know them in death. We know how they died, some of what they ate, how they grew, where they may have roamed, and even if they suffered from disease or injury. Preserved bones can tell us a lot, but perhaps just as interesting are the stories they left in traces, where their behaviour, even…
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Largest Meat-Eating Dino Was a True Swimmer and Had the Dense Bones to Prove It
Spinosaurids — the largest carnivorous dinosaurs to have ever lived — hunted for prey while fully submerged in water, according to an innovative new study that considered the bone density of these fearsome creatures.
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120-Million-Year-Old Footprints Reveal a Scary-Fast Dinosaur
Paleontologists in Spain have analysed two sets of fossilized dinosaur footprints and calculated the animals’ speeds at the times the prints were made. The team found the dinosaurs that made the prints could move at nearly 45 km per hour, a speed that equals that of the world’s fastest humans.