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Dinosaurs: Facts about the reptiles that roamed Earth more than 66 million years agoDiscover interesting facts about when dinosaurs lived, why they died and how big they got
By Jess Thomson Published
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166 million-year-old fossil found on Isle of Skye belongs to pony-size dinosaur from JurassicA fossil that was first discovered over 50 years ago has finally been identified as a dinosaur that lived around 166 million years ago, during the Jurassic Period.
By Jess Thomson Published
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What if a giant asteroid had not wiped out the dinosaurs?Nonavian dinosaurs have been extinct for 66 million years, but what would have happened if they'd survived?
By Sarah Wells Published
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Secrets of 1st dinosaurs lie in the Sahara and Amazon rainforest, study suggestsThe first dinosaurs may have evolved near the equator, and not in the southwest of the supercontinent Gondwana, as researchers previously assumed due to an abundance of fossils in places like Argentina and Zimbabwe.
By Sascha Pare Published
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'Sexy' pterosaur tail should have been nightmare for flying. How did it work?The first pterosaurs had a sail-like tensioning system for flying with potentially cumbersome tail vanes, which they could have used for displays, a new study finds.
By Patrick Pester Published
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Giant horned dinosaur's fossils were destroyed in WWII — but photos reveal it was an unknown speciesScientists have unveiled a giant horned dinosaur from Egypt called Tameryraptor markgrafi after discovering lost photos of fossils destroyed in WWII.
By Patrick Pester Published
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Enormous skull of 200 million-year-old giant dinosaur discovered in ChinaThe well-preserved skull belongs to a never-before-seen species of sauropodomorph that potentially grew up to 33 feet long.
By Richard Pallardy Published
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Oldest known dinosaur in North America is a 'chicken-size' raptor — and changes what we know about how dinos conquered EarthA newfound "chicken-size" dinosaur, recently unearthed in Wyoming, changes what paleontologists thought they knew about how dinosaurs spread across the globe.
By Harry Baker Published
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Weird bumps in UK quarry turn out to be 166 million-year-old dinosaur 'highway' for some of Jurassic's biggest dinosaursResearchers have excavated the largest dinosaur footprint site in the U.K. after a quarry worker found tracks left by two of Britain's biggest Jurassic dinosaurs.
By Patrick Pester Published
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