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AI-generated voice-alikes can be indistinguishable from the real person’s speech to the human ear. A computer model that gives voice to the dinosaurs turns out to be a good way to tell the difference.
The African continent is a rich repository for dinosaur fossils, including teeth and track marks.
A newly discovered dinosaur has small arms and a large head, similar to Tyrannosaurus rex. Estimated to have died at 50 years old, it’s also one of the oldest individual dinosaurs on record.
The dinosaurs were possibly annihilated by two asteroids.
The largest animals to ever walk the earth, giant sauropods dominated world ecosystems for 100 million years. New research indicates soft ‘heel pads’ helped them reach their stature.
Fossil footprints are a treasure chest of information.
New discoveries keep changing our understanding of what dinosaurs looked like. Listen to The Conversation Weekly podcast.
The biggest crime of the film was exaggerating the size of dinosaurs.
Yes, dinosaurs really did survive in snow – we simulated the Cretaceous climate to prove it.
Collectively, the evidence studied by ichnologists helps to paint a picture of long-gone landscapes and the creatures and plants that populated those spaces.
The sale of fossils at auction houses reflects a problematic trend of privileging profit over knowledge and education.
New research on the Crystal Palace dinosaurs is uncovering truths about these famous Victorian sculptures
Whether a combine harvester or a Diplodocus is the cause, compacted soils are a big problem.
A recent BBC documentary examined fossils thought to have been made when an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs.
Two recent discoveries in Alberta and Uzbekistan have identified the top predators in those regions during the Cretaceous period. Fossils that had been in storage for years included the jawbones.
Cockroaches have been on Earth far longer than humans and may outlast us. Here are a few reasons why.
An analysis of the skull suggests the ankylosaur may have had a poorer sense of smell than its counterparts in the northern hemisphere.
Thanks to our new technique using fossilised tracks, we have been able to learn more about the locomotion of the largest creatures ever to have roamed this planet.
Some penguins would have been as tall (or even taller) than adults today.
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Professor of Vertebrate Palaeontology, University of Bristol
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Strategic Professor in Palaeontology, Flinders University
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Chancellor's Fellow in Vertebrate Palaeontology, The University of Edinburgh
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Professor in Evolutionary Biology (jointly appointed with South Australian Museum), Flinders University
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Senior Lecturer in Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology, Life Sciences at the University of Bath, University of Bath
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Senior Researcher in Vertebrate Palaeontology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor, Palaeobiology, University College Cork
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