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Photo: Corey Ford/Stocktrek Images / Getty Images Scientists Found Antarctica’s First Dinosaur Fossil Hiding in a Museum Drawer
A tail bone collected in 1985 was finally identified as belonging to a titanosaur, helping fill a major gap in Antarctica’s dinosaur record.
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Photo: MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Getty Images Ancient Molecules on a Pterosaur Fossil Revealed What Its Diet Looked Like 100 Million Years Ago
It’s so well-preserved that the researchers call it a “time capsule.”
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Photo: Andrew Francis Wallace/Toronto Star via Getty Images Even Scientists Think This Dinosaur Looks Exactly Like Zuul From ‘Ghostbusters’
The large ankylosaurid specimen was 20 inches long and weighed more than 5,000 pounds
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Photo: SEBASTIAN KAULITZKI/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Getty Images Ever Wondered What a Deadly Flying Squirrel With Velociraptor Claws Would Look Like? Science Has Your Answer.
It looks ripped from a Dungeons & Dragons Monster Manual.
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MR1805/Getty Images Scientists Identified a ‘T. Rex of the Ocean’ That Was Hiding in Museum Collections for Decades
The newly classified mosasaur species had massive jaws, serrated teeth, and a name that makes its whole deal pretty clear.
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Photo: Warpaintcobra / Getty Images Scientists Discovered the Brutal Reason T. Rex Had Those Tiny Shrimp Arms
I have a big head… and little arms.
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Jun Seong Yi Scientists Discovered a New Dinosaur Species in South Korea, and It’s Named After a Cartoon
Paleontologists in South Korea have identified a new dinosaur species and named it after a beloved Korean cartoon character.
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Kevin Schafer/Getty Images Rich People Are Spending a Fortune to Buy Museum Dinosaur Bones
A dinosaur named Trey is now headed to the auction block, where his bones will fetch upwards of $5.5 million.
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Nazarii Neshcherenskyi/Getty Images Did Volcanoes on Mars Erupt During the Last Days of the Dinosaurs?
While Earth was still in its dinosaur era and edging into mammal history, Mars still had volcanic activity in the Tharsis region.
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Jon Cherry / Stringer / Getty Images Mosquitoes Really Do Archive Animal DNA, Just Like in ‘Jurassic Park’
“They say Jurassic Park inspired a new generation of paleontologists, but it inspired me to study mosquitoes.”
