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![The Prehistoric Planet 2 first look image features a mother and baby dinosaur.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/4AngsGCpWUQLKFg22d5kdJ-320-80.jpg)
Watch stunning preview of 2nd season of Apple TV+ award-winning show 'Prehistoric Planet'
By Sascha Pare published
The new episodes, which will be available to watch from May 22, 2023, will transport viewers back to the age of dinosaurs with stunning visual effects.
![an illustration of a dinosaur's head. It has yellowish eyes; bumpy beige and yellow skin; and pointed teeth shown in its open mouth](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/3SvK3TMztk2j9RXpLwm9BV-320-80.jpg)
95 million-year-old land bridge across Antarctica carried dinosaurs between continents
By Sascha Pare published
The first-ever near-complete sauropod skull found in Australia is remarkably similar to fossils from South America, which suggests that dinosaurs roamed across ice-free Antarctica.
![Two halves of the titanosaur egg filled with an agate crystal.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/D53xHCZiHgbg2pP5uuit9a-320-80.jpg)
Ancient crystal-filled rock has been hiding dinosaur secret for 140 years
By Sascha Pare published
Paleontologists have confirmed that a rock enclosing a perfectly round agate crystal is actually a titanosaur egg, which was probably smothered by lava after a volcanic eruption 67 million years ago.
![An illustrated reconstruction of Troodon.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/HwuYEHNZoQpcJzuSAcMDQV-320-80.jpg)
Clever, bird-like dinosaurs that lived 74 million years ago got cozy in communal nests, study suggests
By Sascha Pare published
New research has found that troodontids, a group of bird-like dinosaurs that lived 74 million years ago, had high enough body temperatures to brood their eggs in communal nests.
![A lipped dinosaur swallows another one whole.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/ig9NiUJRUuRhnzHWCcJ8e5-320-80.jpg)
T. rex had thin lips and a gummy smile, controversial study suggests
By Sascha Pare published
Paleontologists have suggested that thin, lizard-like lips concealed the gigantic teeth of T. rex and other predatory dinosaurs, but not all experts are convinced.
![An artist's illustration of the ankylosaur, Pinacosaurus grangeri. Its voice box is shown in color below its jaw.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/9BxLR8zfVMwX2EJ3qjHxV8-320-80.jpg)
'Extremely rare' fossilized dinosaur voice box suggests they sounded birdlike
By Ben Turner published
A fossilized ankylosaur voice box reveals that these beasts may have sported a far more sophisticated vocal range than scientists originally thought.
![An illustration of the sauropod Mamenchisaurus sinocanadorum, which had a 49.5-foot-long (15.1 meters) neck, about 10 feet longer than a regular school bus.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/nUhazTFiW9pHECaSv3wjdL-320-80.jpg)
Longest dinosaur neck ever stretched further than a school bus at 49 feet long
By Laura Geggel published
By comparing the few known bones of the sauropod Mamenchisaurus sinocanadorum with its relatives, experts have extrapolated its tremendous neck length.
![A herrerasaurid dinosaur in the jungle threatens rodents with its gaping jaws.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/hnvunrrrqwmWiRSybHz92Y-320-80.jpg)
Hollow bones in giant dinosaurs and pterosaurs show convergent evolution in action, fossil study suggests
By Sascha Pare published
Some of the oldest dinosaurs didn't have hollow bones, suggesting that skeletal air sacs evolved independently in three lineages: long-necked sauropodomorphs, meat-eating theropods and pterosaurs.
![An illustration of Therizinosaurus.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/GKnojfxCzmtZBC2JpH2S6H-320-80.jpg)
Jurassic World’s bizarre, scythe-clawed dinosaur couldn't have been a slasher, study confirms
By Sascha Pare published
Scientists have confirmed that Therizinosaurus, the scythe-clawed dinosaur from Jurassic World, couldn't have used its 'useless' gigantic claws to fight because they were too flimsy.
![A female Apatosaurus (dinosaur with long neck and tail) laying her eggs in nest.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/LXcourjsZwgo93aaV92wJh-320-80.jpg)
'Staggering number' of titanosaur nests discovered in India reveals controversial findings about dino moms
By Joshua A. Krisch published
The discovery of a tightly packed nesting ground from the Cretaceous period in India suggests that titanosaurs laid eggs and left their offspring behind.
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