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More Than a Meteorite: New Clues About the Demise of Dinosaurs Dec. 4, 2023 — What wiped out the dinosaurs? A meteorite plummeting to Earth is only part of the story, a new study suggests. Read More

Ancestor of Dinosaurs Exhibited at Harvard

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Apr. 17, 2024 — The Warm Arctic-Cold Continent (WACC) phenomenon is the puzzling combination of Arctic warming and extreme coldness in specific mid-latitude regions. However, the progression of ... Read More

Just Our Type: Museum’s Dinosaur Skeleton Becomes the Scientific Standard for Its Species

Thanks to its new taxonomic designation, the Smithsonian’s Allosaurus skeleton joins the roughly 139,000 type specimens in the museum’s Paleobiology collection. Each of these type specimens are the ... Read More

50 perfectly-preserved dinosaur footprints have scientists freaking out

This site is a useful building block for us to continue fleshing out a picture of what dinosaurs were like on Skye in the Middle Jurassic.” At the time when sauropods and theropods roamed the Is ... Read More

A new ‘top predator’ dinosaur has been discovered, and it’s terrifying

If you were roaming around the Southern Hemisphere roughly 80 million years ago there are a number of things you’d have to watch out for ... In the north, dinosaurs like the tyrannosaurs ... Read More

How the discovery of dinosaurs led to a war between science and religion

If Biblical historians had worked out that the cosmos was created on October 23 4004BC, and in the evening, too, then how could it be possible for dinosaurs to have been around 66 million years ... Read More

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Experts discover ‘real’ reason why dinosaurs once ruled the world

The study, published in the journal Royal Society Open Science, detailed how dinosaurs managed to fill ... 90 per cent of Earth’s species wiped out. The researchers used fossilised leg bones ... Read More

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White House orders NASA to develop lunar time standard for celestial bodies April 3 (UPI) -- The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy announced it will work to create time standards ... Read More

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