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Enormous pterosaur discovered in Scotland shows they existed 25 million years earlier than previously thought
The fossil, found on the Isle of Skye, is of a near-complete pterosaur skeleton with an 8-foot wing…
Marianne Guenot
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A treasure trove of newly found pterosaur fossils and eggs is revealing the lives of flying reptiles
The new paper announced the discovery of a fantastic treasure trove of fossils and at least 215 Ham…
Kevin Loria
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Scientists claim they've found a perfectly preserved dinosaur fossil killed when the mass extinction asteroid hit the earth 66 million years ago
Dinosaur fossils found at Tanis in North Dakota are believed to date back to the mass extinction ev…
Marianne Guenot,Alia Shoaib
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Meet the 'Monkeydactyl' - a small flying dinosaur with opposable thumbs that was just discovered in China
This is the first time researchers have found dinosaurs with thumbs that could grasp objects.
Cheryl Teh
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Mysterious fossilized footprints reveal that ancient crocodile ancestors walked on two legs
Paleontologists originally thought the ancient footprints belonged to pterosaurs who walked on thei…
Aylin Woodward
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Why the 'Game of Thrones' dragons wouldn't fly in real life
But what if their muscles and bones were made of something else? Some special, extra-strong materia…
David Anderson,Shira Polan
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One of the richest sets of dinosaur footprints ever found contains more than 70 tracks - and was discovered at a NASA facility
"The concentration of mammal tracks on this site is orders of magnitude higher than any other site …
Kevin Loria
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These Goofy Looking Reptiles Ruled The Skies For Millions Of Years
In order to coax their big bodies into flight, these creatures evolved adaptations like hollow bone…
Leslie Baehr
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Here's how the 'Jurassic World' dinosaurs looked in real life
"The ["Jurassic World"] press has been showing their mosasaur has a series of scutes along it's bac…
Ian Phillips
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This 'bizarre-looking, buck-toothed' dinosaur that could fit in your palm flew around the Jurassic skies like a bat
Then in 2015, scientists unearthed a dinosaur named Yi qi (meaning "strange wing" in Mandarin) in n…
Aylin Woodward
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Early dinosaurs laid leathery, soft-shelled eggs, new research shows — shattering our understanding of dinosaur evolution
Until now, all dinosaur eggs found around the world have had hard shells, suggesting that these ani…
Aylin Woodward
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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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All stars in the universe may form in pairs - but we can't find the sun's missing 'Nemesis'
When he introduced his Nemesis idea, Muller posited that the twin star might periodically intersect…