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Jurassic Park movies ranked, worst to best
By Fran Ruiz last updated
Nobody move a muscle as we go through the Jurassic Park movies ranked, worst to best.

Giant, ostrich-like dinosaur and its smaller cousin roamed Mississippi during the late Cretaceous
By Laura Geggel published
A giant, ostrich-like dinosaur and its smaller cousin, also an ornithomimosaur, sprinted through what is now Mississippi about 85 million years ago.

Why did T. rex have such tiny arms?
By JoAnna Wendel published
Tyrannosaurus rex and many of its theropod cousins had large bodies but tiny arms. What gives?

The CIA wants to bring woolly mammoths back from extinction
By Brandon Specktor published
The CIA is the latest investor in Colossal Biosciences, a company that wants to bring woolly mammoths and Tasmanian tigers back from extinction using DNA editing.

Pterodactyl: Facts about pteranodon & other pterosaurs
By Joseph Castro last updated
Reference Flying reptiles ruled the skies for millions of years.

Astonishing dinosaur mummy has 'glittering' skin that was punctured and ripped by ancient crocs
By Nicoletta Lanese last updated
Scientists uncovered a previously unknown way that dinosaur mummies form.

Tsunami from dinosaur-killing asteroid had mile-high waves and reached halfway across the world
By Laura Geggel published
The dinosaur-killing asteroid triggered mile-high monster waves and waters that reached the world over.

Spectacular T. rex skeleton may fetch $25 million at auction (the new owner gets to name it, too)
By Laura Geggel published
Paleontologists are unhappy that a T. rex specimen from Montana is hitting the auction block in Hong Kong in November.
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