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The biggest crime of the film was exaggerating the size of dinosaurs.
The oldest fossil evidence for dinosaurs in Australia came as a surprise when it was dug out by coal miners working in Ipswich.
So how accurate is the T. rex’s running speed in that famous Jurassic Park jeep-chase scene?
Preserved in amber, a tiny beetle has shed light on the moment the world first burst into bloom.
Tooth fossils from NSW have confirmed sauropods weren’t exclusive to Queensland. They’re also providing a first look at how these colossal dinosaurs fed from Australia’s land.
Dinosaurs ruled the Earth for about 180 million years. But around 66 million years ago, a huge rock from outer space (called an asteroid) smashed into the Earth. Then things got worse for dinosaurs.
Monster movies are currently rampaging across the globe. Their popularity shows us how Hollywood’s place in world cinema is changing.
Until this discovery, theropod dinosaurs were thought to be considerably smaller, at three to five metres in body length, during the Early Jurassic.
The fossilized plant Montsechia relied on water to disseminate its genetic material and may rewrite the book on when and how the first flowering plants evolved.
The latest Jurassic World movie has been criticised for its less than accurate portrayal of some of the dinosaurs. But how we imagine they looked and behaved has changed many times over the years.
A “Pleistocene Park” might be a more realistic scenario.
Plenty of action in the new dinosaur movie Jurassic World, in cinemas from Thursday. But how realistic are the dinosaurs and who are the real monsters when we play around with nature?
Science-fiction, to some extent, can indeed create science.
Jurassic World is opening in cinemas this Thursday and again raises the idea of resurrecting extinct creatures. But there’s plenty of other contenders before we even think of recreating dinosaurs.
A dinosaur that looks like a bizarre mix of dinosaurs that it is not related to has been discovered in Southern Chile.
Scientists in the new Jurassic World movie have taken scary to a new level with genetically modified hybrid dinosaurs. But is any of this possible?
The end-Triassic mass extinction may be better known for preceding the rise of the dinosaurs, but it had a profound effect on oceans too.
My colleagues and I recently had the great privilege to announce a remarkable new discovery: a dolphin-like reptile that prowled the Middle Jurassic waters 170 million years ago. When you think of scientists…
Say hello to Torvosaurus gurneyi, the newly discovered theropod dinosaur that lived in Europe around 157-145 million years ago. It is potentially the largest land predator discovered in Europe and one…
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PhD student, Imperial College London
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Strategic Professor in Palaeontology, Flinders University
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Senior lecturer, University of New England
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Project Officer – Office of the Queensland Chief Scientist
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Professor of Practice, Emory University
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Researcher and curator, Jurassica Museum
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PhD candidate, University of Birmingham
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Postdoctoral fellow in vertebrate palaeontology, Flinders University
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Emeritus Professor of Geological Sciences and Paleobotany, Indiana University
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PhD Candidate in Science and Technology Studies, UCL
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Chancellor's Fellow in Vertebrate Palaeontology, University of Edinburgh
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PhD, Independent Researcher, The University of Queensland
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