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Science / Dinosaurs

A view of the outcrop

Dinosaur Dispatch: Day 14

The paleontology team bids a fond farewell to Wyoming’s Big Basin

The search yields bones believed to be from a sauropod, a suborder of dinosaurs

Dinosaur Dispatch: Days 9, 10 and 11

A new site and more digging yields a dinosaur discovery

On the march back from the Death March site, everyone carries bags of sediment

Dinosaur Dispatch: Days 6, 7 and 8

The team survives the Death March dig and makes an essential stop in Thermopolis

Belemnite fossils found during the first day in the field

Dinosaur Dispatch: Days 3 and 4

The paleontology team is finally in place. After setting up camp, the dig begins. Fossils are found and dinosaur tracks investigated

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Dinosaur Dispatch: Day 1

Michelle Coffey moves from biology class to the Bighorn Basin and prepares for her first dinosaur dig

Brontosaurus skeleton sketch

Where Dinosaurs Roamed

Footprints at one of the nation’s oldest—and most fought over—fossil beds offer new clues to how the behemoths lived

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Wild Things

Life as We Know It

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

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