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Dinosaurs

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Tiny T. rex fossils may be distinct species – but not everyone agrees

Palaeontologists can’t agree on whether fossils from several small dinosaurs represent juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex or smaller adults of a separate species that lived alongside them

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Unknown animals left birdlike footprints long before birds existed

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Illustration of a large asteroid colliding with Earth on the Yucatan Peninsula, forming the Chicxulub crater

Chicxulub: The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs

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Sun-blocking dust from asteroid impact drove the dinosaur extinction

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The best science fiction movies about dinosaurs, by a palaeontologist

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Minimocursor phunoiensis was discovered in Thailand

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Newly discovered dinosaur roamed South-East Asia 200 million years ago

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Amazing fossil hints mammals hunted dinosaurs three times their size

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Prehistoric Planet 2 review: Attenborough returns to ancient Earth

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Amber fragment with feather portions and beetle larval moults

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Amber fossils reveal dinosaurs and beetles had symbiotic relationship

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A Tyrannosaurus rex eats a juvenile Edmontosaurus

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T. rex’s terrifying teeth would have been hidden behind scaly lips

Just about every popular depiction of predatory dinosaurs is wrong, because their teeth were probably mostly obscured from view rather than being bared ready to strike

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Longest dinosaur neck on record was six times longer than a giraffe’s

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Treasure trove of fossil eggs hints titanosaurs nested in colonies

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Ichthyosaurs used a barren region of the ocean as an ancient nursery

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Diversity helped mammals survive asteroid that killed the dinosaurs

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