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New discovery reveals why dinosaurs reached massive sizes
Long-necked sauropods ruled the land during the Jurassic and Cretaceous ages. These plant-eating giants appeared on every ...
Dinosaurs may hold unlikely key to cancer breakthroughs say scientists
Researchers explored the fossil of a Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus, a 'marsh lizard' that existed between 66 and 70 million ...
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For Fruit Seeds, Humans Are Modern-Day Dinosaurs
By physically engineering their environments, megafauna such as dinosaurs curbed fruit seed sizes—a role that now may be ...
A dinosaur that could change everything has been unearthed: it was the size of a dog and may be the oldest fossil of its kind ever found
The movie 'Jurassic Park', which was released in 1994, was instrumental in bringing dinosaurs back into the limelight. Since then, these prehistoric creatures have made their way i ...
How the dinosaur-killing extinction could help save modern bivalves
An asteroid strike 66 million years ago caused millions of species to go extinct—including many mollusks. By studying the ...
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From titans to tiny, Sternberg Museum welcomes 'Armored Animals' exhibit
A cast of a Deinosuchus, which lived 83.5 million years ago in the United States and was similar to modern alligators. They ...
Newly identified prehistoric creature found in Canada seen as a 'fascinating beast'
A group of Canadian fossils is identified as a new genus of the elasmosaurus "sea monster" that existed tens of millions of ...
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Dinosaurs could hold key to cancer discoveries, scientists say
The findings raised the possibility that prehistoric creatures could be used to study ancient tumours, helping to fill in the ...
Texas road construction unearths 'colossal' prehistoric remains of 'big ol' animals'
Archaeologists in Texas recently discovered prehistoric megafauna bones, including a giant ground sloth, during a highway project in Lubbock, according to officials.