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Twenty Years of Tyrannosaurus Sue

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Plane May Be Better Than Car in Climate Equation

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Dinosaur Sighting: Santa Monica’s Spitting Dinosaur

The silver spotted skipper butterfly is one of the most common butterflies caught during the census.

Name That Butterfly

Citizen scientists on a sharp learning curve are carrying out an important census in fields and gardens across the country

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Searching for Bad Poetry About Geology

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Super-Sized Tyrannosaurus Comes to South Dakota

Skeletal mount of Allosaurus at the American Museum of Natural History, New York City

AMNH’s “Battling Dinosaurs” Get Split Up

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UPDATED: Priceless Russian Fruit Plant Collection Faces Demolition

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A Cat-Like Crocodile from the Cretaceous

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Pakasuchus: The Croc That Ate Like a Mammal

The Australian Dragonfish

Weird Creatures From the Deep

A massive census of the oceans has turned up a trove of strange marine wildlife, from jellyfish to octopuses to anemones

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The Problem with Space Junk

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Relax—Triceratops Really Did Exist

This last week, people across the Internet have driven themselves into a tizzy over a study that threw into question the existence of the Triceratops

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Dinosaur Sighting: Quebecois Theropod

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Whooping Cough on the Rise in Several States

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Smithsonian Implements Sticky Solution to Aid Energy Conservation

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Dinosaur Drive-In: Legend of Dinosaurs and Monster Birds

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How Bacteria Help Create Dinosaur Fossils

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Three Classes Wannabe Doctors Should Take Before Med School

A long-anonymous college student in New York City reflected both the gravity and zaniness of that first Earth Day protest.

An Earth Day Icon, Unmasked

The 1970 photograph became an instant environmental classic, but its subject has remained nameless until now

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