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How Did the Biggest Dinosaurs Get it On?

Of all the dinosaur mysteries, how dinosaurs like the 23-ton Apatosaurus mated is one of the most perplexing
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Who Was the First to Discover Dinosaur Eggs?

Despite an immense wave of publicity heralding the discovery of dinosaur eggs in 1923, French paleontologists had discovered them decades earlier
February 08, 2012 | By Brian Switek

Judging a Dinosaur By its Cover

A new study suggests that you can distinguish different hadrosaur species by their pebbly hides alone
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The “Duck-billed” Dinosaur That Wasn’t

Instead of a long, low duck bill, the beak of Tethyshadros was shaped like a snowplow and serrated. Why it had such a strange beak is a mystery
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How an Ankylosaur Went Out to Sea

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The "lay 'em and leave 'em" strategy might not have been the ancestral state for these dinosaurs
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Fearsome Dinosaur Had Ridiculously Short Arms

The forelimbs of this animal look like an evolutionary joke
January 24, 2012 | By Brian Switek

Some Dinosaurs Used Natural Heat for Their Nests

The sauropod site may have resembled Yellowstone National Park, with geysers, hot springs and mud pots
January 23, 2012 | By Brian Switek

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The Largest Ceratosaurus

How many species of this rare, ornamented genus were there?
January 19, 2012 | By Brian Switek

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Dinosaur Division is All in the Hips

Thanks to one 1888 paper, paleontologists still divide dinosaurs between the bird-hips and lizard-hips
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Dinosaurs of a Feather

Some researchers insist that birds are not dinosaurs, but do they have any evidence?
January 13, 2012 | By Brian Switek

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