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These dinosaurs may have used their frills to flirt
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Many dinosaurs had distinctive bony frills around their necks -- the best-known being the distinctive Triceratops. It's not a feature found in living animals today, and paleontologists have long debated what the fu...
This fossil reveals how dinosaurs peed, pooped and had sex
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We know a lot about dinosaurs -- what they looked like, what they ate and what killed them off -- but no fossils have definitively preserved two dinosaurs in the act of mating. However, a fossil from China of a Psit...
Scientists digitally rebuilt this dinosaur’s brain and made some surprising discoveries
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London Scientists have digitally rebuilt the brain of a dinosaur, revealing "surprising" insights into its diet and behavior. Using advanced imaging and 3D modeling techniques, researchers from the UK's University of...
Why some dinosaurs had such long necks
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Sauropods were the largest animals to ever walk the Earth. These long-necked dinosaurs could grow the length of three school buses and were so heavy the ground must have shaken as they walked. This family of dinos...
New fossil discovery suggests dinosaurs traveled across oceans
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Fossils of a duckbill dinosaur have been discovered in Africa, leading experts to believe the species once traveled hundreds of kilometers across oceans to reach the continent. The new dinosaur, Ajnabia odysseus, a ...
This previously unknown mass extinction gave rise to dinosaurs, scientists say
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The asteroid strike that doomed the dinosaurs is an event that many people are aware of. It wiped out more than three-quarters of all life on Earth 66 million years ago. But it was only one of the Big Five mass ext...