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The top ten dinosaur discoveries of 2025, from preserved blood vessels to the return of a short king
With 2025 stomping its way to a close, we’re left to look back at another stunning year of dinosaur discoveries. The year has ...
A rare dinosaur skull will soon go on display at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, but the fossil will ...
The year's top paleontological wonders ranged from a 540-million-year-old penis worm to a decades-old rodent impression.
WASHINGTON, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Paleontologists for decades debated whether meat-eating dinosaur Nanotyrannus was actually just a juvenile Tyrannosaurus. But within a span of five weeks, the matter ...
Legend once had it that the huge, three-toed footprints scattered across the central highlands of Bolivia came from supernaturally strong monsters - capable of sinking their claws even into solid ...
New research confirms that Nanotyrannus was not a juvenile T. rex, but a predatory species native to the Late Cretaceous ...
Significant fossil discoveries in North Dakota include a T. rex and two mammoths. One mammoth found under a garage shows signs of a rare bone disease or malnutrition. The fossils will eventually be ...
Scientists have confirmed that Nanotyrannus was a mature species, not a young T. rex. A microscopic look at its hyoid bone provided the key evidence, matching growth signals seen in known T. rex ...
There are also last-minute Cyber Monday deals on Blu-rays, including discounts on steelbooks and 4K Blu-rays. The Jurassic World Trilogy Limited Edition Steelbook on 4K Blu-ray is a particular ...
On Monday, France returned an “extremely rare” dinosaur skeleton and 30 additional paleontological finds to Mongolia. A European trafficking network looted the skeleton from the Gobi desert and ...
Legend once had it that the huge, three-toed footprints scattered across the central highlands of Bolivia came from ...
A new pterosaur species was recently discovered in the vomit of a dino. But that's just the start of revelations from prehistoric excretions. Millions of years ago, a predator like spinosaurus (shown ...
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