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Science / Dinosaurs

What Bugged the Dinosaurs?: Insects, Disease, and Death in the Cretaceous

Did the Dinosaurs Bug Out?

Orcas swim in ice floes.

Wild Things

Life as We Know It

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Taking a Dinosaur’s Temperature

Polar species heat up one of paleontology’s great debates

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The Strange Lives of Polar Dinosaurs

How did they endure months of perpetual cold and dark?

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Bones to Pick

Paleontologist William Hammer hunts dinosaur fossils in the Antarctic

Coelophysis

Dino-Neanderthals?

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Wild Things: Life as We Know It

Great sharks, manakins and dino digs

Tyrannosaurus rex

Dino Do-Over

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Wild Things: Life as We Know It

Killer whales, trap-jaw ants and dinosaurs

Montana

Wanted!

Our fossil collection is already the world’s largest. But we’re in search of a complete T. rex

A tiny blob of stretchy brown matter, soft tissue from inside the leg bone, suggests the specimen had not completely decomposed.

Dinosaur Shocker

Probing a 68-million-year-old T. rex, Mary Schweitzer stumbled upon astonishing signs of life that may radically change our view of the ancient beasts

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Whales on Mountaintops

A great fossil find high in the Chilean Andes began with a delayed flight in New York City and ended with a horseback ride from hell

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Head’s Up

From a computer-generated model, sculptors cast a bronze triceratops that Looks like the real thing

Samples of rock from Chicxulub Crater

A Tale of Two Rocks

Retrieved from a mile beneath the earth’s surface 65 million years after their creation, they bear witness to a cataclysm - and the death of the dinosaurs

Tyrannosaurus rex

Digging for Dinosaur Gold

A complicated battle over one fossil Tyrannosaurus rex—and the high-stakes auction of another—raises a big question: Who gets to own the bones?

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