Archaeopteryx and Hesperornis should be on the lists of any dino bird watcher.
If you love learning about dinosaurs don’t let crowdpleasers like the T Rex distract you from the fascinating birdlife that once roamed the Earth.
A replica fossil of the titanosaur Patagotitan , one of the largest dinosaurs ever discovered. It would have weighed about 70 tons (63.5 metric tons.)
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Some of these giant vegetarians were as tall as a 3-story building. Microscopic analysis of their teeth, bones and eggshells reveals how they grew, what they ate and even their body temperature.
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The mission provided details about how to deflect an asteroid should one threaten Earth in future.
Abelisaurs. Art by Andrey Atuchin.
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Fossils suggest that as many as three abelisaurid species coexisted in Morocco around 66 million years ago.
An artist’s impression of the new pterosaur species, Cheoptera
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The Isle of Skye has a rich palaeontological heritage, so perhaps it’s no surprise scientists made an important discovery there.
Birdlike dinosaur Eoneophron infernalis was about the size of an adult human.
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Rather than a juvenile of a known species, several fossilized bones represent a new species – and shed light on the question of whether dinosaurs were already in decline before disaster struck.
Massospondylus skeleton.
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Some time between 1100 and 1700 AD, a Massospondylus bone was discovered and carried to a rock shelter in Lesotho.
Elephants communicate underground by generating seismic waves.
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Elephants can be viewed as geological engineers that create minor tectonic forces on the substrate they walk on.
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Our mammal ancestors evolved to compete with dinosaurs but may have lost something in the process.
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Impress your niece or nephew with these T rex facts.
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New laboratory experiments add analytical rigour to the search for ancient biomolecules
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Small holes in baby dinosaur bones add to the growing mass of evidence that the ancient creatures were warm-blooded and highly active.
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The fossil record tells conflicting stories about what happened to flowering plants after the asteroid.
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Some footprints last thousands or even millions of years, preserved in sand that turned to rock.
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An artistic impression of the various dinosaur species that once roamed the Roma Valley.
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Fossilised tracks of a group of plant-eating dinosaurs have been found in Lesotho’s Roma Valley for the first time.
The Jurassic Park franchise has spawned several movies, theme parks and spin-off products.
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Jurassic Park was a technological breakthrough for film because of its use of CGI. It also revived an interest in paleontology and raised ethical questions about DNA use.
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New research shows that placental mammals survived the mass extinction that killed the
dinosaurs.
Dr Alan Grant (Sam Neill) yn ceisio denu'r T. rex i ffwrdd o'r plant sy'n gaeth yn y car.
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Rhyddhawyd Jurassic Park ar y sgrin fawr ym mis Mehefin 1993 a newidiodd sinema am byth.
Dr Alan Grant (Sam Neill) tries to lure a T. rex away from the kids trapped inside an overturned Jeep.
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Jurassic Park was released on the big screen in June 1993 and changed cinema for good.