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The trajectory of the Chicxulub asteroid led to the most efficient release of gas and projectile rocks – which was disastrous for life on Earth.
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This ancient cat-sized animal lived millions of years ago and had features not found in any of today’s mammals.
The fossil in amber.
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The fossil includes the tiny creature’s original bone and flesh.
Amber holds the secret to the tiny world of the age of dinosaurs.
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The skull of Oculudentavis, found encased in amber, provides new clues into the transition from dinosaurs to birds and may be smallest of either ever found.
A Hypacrosaurus skeleton at the Royal Tyrrell Museum, Alberta.
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Scientists claim to have found DNA in fossilised dinosaur cartilage.
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A mass extinction 66 million years ago killed the non-bird dinosaurs, but plants survived.
Examining the fossilised teeth of dinosaur species like Spinosaurus Aegyptiacus can reveal clues about their diets and place on the food chain.
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Teeth can reveal a lot about diversity when they are reasonably well-preserved.
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Dinosaurs are malleable beasts: so much so that their constant reshaping has often been driven by cultural and political trends.
Reconstruction of the ancient environment at the Highlands trace fossil site about 183 million years ago.
Artwork by Akhil Rampersadh. Heterodontosaurid silhouette is courtesy of Viktor Radermacher.
These trackways offer rare insights about ancient life in a stressful, hostile environment during the Early Jurassic.
Fire can kill animals and destroy their habitats, leading to extinction.
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The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs sparked global firestorms. On land, only creatures that could evade fire survived
This T. rex is very big, but was it a grown-up?
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Sometimes the only way to tell the difference between a baby dinosaur and a grown-up one is to find fossils of them both together.
A fossilized bee in amber.
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How do we know that bees were around when dinosaurs still roamed the Earth? The main evidence comes from fossils – the mineralized remains of long-dead organisms.
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Scientists have worked out a new way to scan beneath the ground for footprints – and it’s revealing traces of an ancient world.
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Every cloud has a silver lining – even the debris cloud from an asteroid impact
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Scientists are left with two conclusions. Either Nessie is an eel, or she never existed at all.
Landscape in the Var area of France with fossilised Permian pelites (Permian Middle, 270 Ma) and “muddle cracks”.
The geological and biological archives of the Earth shed light on both the distant past of our planet and allow us to imagine its future.
The “Grey Skull” specimen turned out to belong to an entirely new dinosaur species and genus.
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The more we know about the animals that lived during this time, the more we can start to comprehend how species react and recover after an extinction event.
Therizinosaurs and their fossilised eggs.
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New research suggests some dinosaurs buried and protected eggs in groups.
Centrosaurus
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Fossils contain a thriving world of bacteria, proteins and perhaps even organic matter from dinosaurs.
Was velociraptor a feathered friend? Here’s one artist’s impression.
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When the first Jurassic Park film came out, we didn’t know which dinosaurs had feathers. But a few years later, a very important discovery was made that changed our thinking on how dinosaurs looked.