Wild Things: Life as We Know It
Killer whales, trap-jaw ants and dinosaurs
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Our fossil collection is already the world’s largest. But we’re in search of a complete T. rex
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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
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
From a computer-generated model, sculptors cast a bronze triceratops that Looks like the real thing
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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
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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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