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A consultant on Chris Packham’s latest dinosaur show about Tyrannosaurus Rex explains how they kept it entertaining but accurate.
Present day Emperor penguins like this would have been dwarfed by the giant find.
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Scientists in New Zealand have discovered an extinct penguin known as Kumimanu biceae that was 1.77m tall.
Alexander Kellner (Museu Nacional/UFRJ)
Researchers use CT scanners to take first look inside pterosaur eggs.
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Scientists can be overly thirsty for dinosaur blood.
Cell/University of Bristol
Reconstructing the colours of the feathered Sinosauropteryx gives hints about its habitat and lifestyle.
Archaeopteryx.
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New research shows how dinosaurs suppressed their teeth and grew beaks, and then back-shifted this process from adult to embryo stage.
Reconstruction of an adult basal cynodont with its young.
Image by James Stemler
Two fossils found in South Africa provide direct evidence of parental care in extinct pre-mammalian ancestors.
Lida Ajer cave - a small but well decorated front entrance.
Julien Louys
The evidence of a much earlier presence of humans in Indonesia was found more than 100 years ago. But only now has the age of the fossil teeth been accurately dated.
Ken in the field with his team from the ANU in 1990 at Gogo (left to right) Dr Peter Pridmore, Prof Ken Campbell, Mrs Val Elder and Dr Richard Barwick.
John Long
One of Australia’s most distinguished palaeontologists will be farewelled at a funeral in Canberra today.
Children gather around a fossil skull at a South African museum.
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As an intellectual history of the disciplines of paleontology and paleoanthropology, Kuljan’s book is especially adept at narrating the interwoven connections between science and power.
Local people at Tendaguru (Tanzania) excavation site in 1909 with Giraffatitan fossils.
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Africa has one of the world’s richest fossil records, and evidence suggests that amateurs collected really important fossils long before professionals arrived on the scene.
“Neo” skull of Homo naledi from the Lesedi Chamber.
John Hawks/Wits University
Evidence of Homo naledi’s age suggests we need to rethink our understanding of human history and evolution.
Giant sloths: killed by rainy weather?
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A burst of wet weather could have helped to kill off mammoths and other large herbivores, by transforming much of the world’s grasslands into bogs and forests and depriving megafauna of food.
Ancient dragon.
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Researchers pieced together evidence from fossils that had been sitting in museums for years.
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A new fossil study challenges 130 years of thinking about how dinosaurs evolved.
375 million years ago fishes like Tiktaalik (pictured, above) looked out above water for prey.
John Long, Flinders University
The first truly terrestrial animals evolved from ancient fishes that left the water for land. But what prompted to move has been a mystery.
Tubular fossils believed to represent early microbes.
Matthew Dodd
Tiny tubes and filaments of iron found in rocks in Canada turned out to be the remains of microbes from over 3.7 billion years ago.
Dinghua Yang & Jun Liu
A 245m year old fossil is the first evidence that of live births in one of the major groups of animals.
Trustees of the NHM, London
The Natural History Museum’s ‘Dippy’ the diplodocus skeleton is about to be become a giant 3D jigsaw.
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There might have been as many as 160,000 types of dinosaur, give or take.