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College Student Identifies Bizarre New Carnivorous Dinosaur Three Times Older Than T. rex
42+ min ago (723+ words) A distorted dinosaur skull, once dismissed as unusable, became the focus of a detailed digital reconstruction that revealed new insights into early carnivorous dinosaurs. "You want to stick your finger in a dinosaur brain?" asked Simba Srivastava. In a fossil-filled…...
Germany to Repatriate Rare "Irritator" Dinosaur Skull to Brazil
6+ hour, 20+ min ago (268+ words) streamlinefeed. co. ke The skull was acquired by the German institution in 1991, but its journey out of Brazil was shrouded in mystery. Under a 1942 Brazilian law, fossils found within the national territory are state property and cannot be exported without…...
The Tully Monster: A Strange Fossil from Illinois That Continues to Puzzle Scientists
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Deadly Teeth of T. rex Were Hidden Behind Scaly Lips, Shattering Prehistoric Perceptions
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New Tool Lets You Trace Where Your Backyard Was 320 Million Years Ago
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Jurassic Park Got T. rex All Wrong: a new study argues its deadly teeth weren't always exposed, but hidden behind lips much more similiar to a Komodo dragon
10+ hour, 53+ min ago (150+ words) New research published in Science suggests Tyrannosaurus Rex and other theropod dinosaurs may have had lips that covered their teeth when their mouths were closed. This challenges the long-held image of permanently exposed teeth, with evidence from wear patterns and…...
Are Two-Headed Animals For Real?
5+ hour, 38+ min ago (186+ words) The natural world is full of wonders and oddities that often challenge our understanding of biology. Among these phenomena, two-headed animals stand out as particularly fascinating and sometimes disturbing examples of developmental anomalies. While they might seem like creatures from…...
Another dinosaur goes extinct as Bernard Matthews swaps turkey for chicken
5+ hour, 42+ min ago (193+ words) A Norfolk-based food company has scrapped its popular turkey dinosaurs in favour of a new recipe. Bernard Matthews has swapped its frozen coated poultry products -including dinosaurs and Twizzlers - from turkey to chicken. The shift comes after consumer taste tests…...
Dinosaurs emerged 10 million years earlier than previously thought: Study
18+ min ago (424+ words) Paleontologists have compiled anatomical and fossil age data to clarify how dinosaurs evolved through sporadic bursts of morphological change. A new study by Princeton and Yale Universities has revised the timeline of dinosaur origins, pushing it back by 10 million years....
A real-life kraken monster? At 19m it was longer than a railway carriage, devilishly smart and able to crush prey with a devastatingly lethal bite. .. will
5+ hour, 6+ min ago (1404+ words) This giant cephalopod dwarfed mosasaurs and other massive marine reptiles that lived during the time of the dinosaurs" The largest predators in Earth's oceans are typically vertebrates, so when palaeontologists recently announced they'd found fossils from a 19m-long octopus that…...