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Why did some birds survive when dinosaurs went extinct? Molting feathers could hold a clue
Feathers preserved in amber could suggest some ancient birds molted differently than modern birds, …
Jenny McGrath
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Dire wolves, camels, and other extinct giant mammals that used to live in North America
Giant mammals like dire wolves and saber-tooth cats were once common in North America. But these me…
Jenny McGrath
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Flying penguins chilling on tropical islands may have existed before the dinosaurs went extinct
Before the solar ice cap was the formed, the oceans were tropical, and penguins were rushing alo…
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The dinosaurs may have already been going extinct before the cataclysmic space rock hit Earth, new findings suggest
Did dinosaurs go extinct after a space rock hit Earth 66 million years ago, or were they already de…
Aylin Woodward
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A second space rock hit Earth after the one that doomed the dinosaurs - a nail in the coffin of the mass extinction
After a space rock struck Earth 66 million years ago - killing the dinosaurs - another asteroid hit…
Aylin Woodward
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Scientists found a new, huge dinosaur with tiny arms like a T. rex, deepening the mystery of why they evolved that way
Meraxes gigas is the third type of huge, carnivorous dinosaur found with very small arms, suggestin…
Marianne Guenot
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A 193-million-year old nesting ground with more than 100 dinosaur eggs offers evidence they lived in herds
Paleontologists found 100 eggs and 80 skeletons from a dinosaur called Mussaurus at a site in Patag…
Aylin Woodward
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'Westworld' co-creator Lisa Joy teases 'timeline branching' plans for next season and muses on the extinction of humanity
HBO has yet to renew the sci-fi series for a fifth season, but showrunner Lisa Joy says this season…
Kim Renfro
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How a 14-year-old picked up a piece of fossil almost 20 years ago and jumpstarted the beginning of dinosaur discovery in Australia
Before the discovery of a dinosaur fossil in 2004, many paleontologists thought they wouldn't find …
Sarah Al-Arshani
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A whopping 2.5 billion fully grown T. rexes walked the Earth in the course of the species' existence, paleontologists found
A study estimates how many adult T. rexes could live in a given area. That enabled researchers to c…
Aylin Woodward
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A Harvard physicist has an incredible theory for why the dinosaurs went extinct
The mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs was triggered by a massive asteroid that slammed i…
Alex Kuzoian
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Something was killing off dinosaurs long before they went extinct - and it could turn popular history on its head
British research discovered the disappearance of dinosaurs millions of years before they went extin…
Emmanuel Ocbazghi,Jessica Orw…
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The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs triggered devastating underwater eruptions - which changes how we understand their extinction
There were at least three nearly simultaneous events involved in the global catastrophe that ended …
Kevin Loria
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Dark, cold days may have been what actually drove the dinosaurs extinct
Things were a lot toastier on Earth when the dinosaurs were around, at least until the asteroid arr…
Lindsay Dodgson
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For the first time, an hour-by-hour timeline reveals what happened after the asteroid crash that killed the dinosaurs
According to a new study in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, global coo…
Aylin Woodward
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A NASA scientist's incredible animation shows how dinosaurs roamed the Earth on the other side of the Milky Way galaxy
Our sun orbits the galaxy's center, completing its rotation every 250 million years or so. So Chris…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Scientists have discovered that Earth's worst mass extinction was caused by climate change. It was called the 'Great Dying.'
Scientists have offered several hypotheses for the cause of this event, which marked the end of the…
Peter Kotecki,Peter Kotecki
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These are the 25 animals that scientists want to bring back from extinction
Scientists must be able to show that the species is desirable, such as having an important ecologic…