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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.
Life reconstruction of an Australian pterosaur.
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In the dinosaur era, flying reptiles soared in the skies of what is now Australia – but we have barely any fossil records of them.
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The most detailed evolutionary tree of butterfly species ever created reveals the precise origins of the nectar-sipping gadabouts.
Life reconstruction of the head of the Australian sauropod Diamantinasaurus matildae.
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Meet Ann: a toothy 95 million-year-old Diamantinasaurus from outback Queensland.
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Although we’re used to seeing lipless dinosaur carnivores, our new data suggests they had lizard-like lips and probably couldn’t snarl.
Dinosaurs once dominated Earth’s landscapes.
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Hollow bones were essential for dinosaurs like Tyrannosaurus rex.
This is the famous – and fake – photograph of the Loch Ness monster, taken near Inverness, Scotland, on April 19, 1934. The photograph was later revealed to be a hoax.
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The idea of a creature like the Loch Ness monster fascinates people. But does the scientific evidence say it’s a prehistoric beast or total fake?
It wasn’t flying that gave birds the advantage.
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Birds and dinosaurs lived together for millions of years, but only toothless birds survived the asteroid impact that upended life on Earth.
The landscape near Grande Prairie, Alta. contains fossils from the Late Cretaceous period.
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The Wapiti Formation in Alberta is turning out to be a rich site for dinosaur and other fossils. A recent discovery could fill in the gaps about a transition between different ecological communities.
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If we go far enough back in time, we all share an ancestor. And some of the features found in our bones and bodies today are a testament to that.
Pterosaurs are not dinosaurs.
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Prehistoric reptiles like pterodactyls took flight long before bats and birds, but we don’t know how it happened.
Feet of an Andean condor.
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The feet of a bird tell us a lot about its life. Newly described, the fossil feet of the ancestors of modern birds reveal how superbly adapted they were to their world.
Full size blue crab.
In different parts of the world evolution often comes up with the same or similar solutions to life’s problems.