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How Long Could You Survive Chained to a Bunk Bed with a Velociprator?

Probabilistic seismic hazard map

California Shaking

Amazing animations from the USGS of a magnitude 7.8 scenario earthquake on the San Andreas Fault in southern California

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Sabertooth Cat: More Like a Lion or a House Cat?

It is difficult to figure out the behaviors of an animal that lived thousands—or millions—of years ago when all you have are its fossilized bones

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“Cliff” the Triceratops Finds a Good Home

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Long Before Pepto-Bismol — Dinosaur Poop, Revisited

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And the Next Species Predicted to Be Lost to Climate Change is…

…the antilopine wallaroo, a type of kangaroo that lives in wet, tropical areas of Australia

The large eyes of a red dragonfly.

Bugs, Brains and Trivia

No detail is too small for students at the Linnaean games, an annual national insect trivia competition

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Insect Trivia

Test your insect knowledge by answering these trivia questions

Sunrise over South Texas, by Hugh Powell. That’s right - a sunrise. In every ending there’s a new dawn, after all. See you at Food and Think)

Gisting Off Into the Sunset

Picture of the Week - Deep-sea Octopi

Megeleledone setebos (bottom left), an octopus species endemic to the Southern Ocean, surrounded by related octopus species that evolved in the deep-sea

Aerosteon

A Kerfuffle Revisited, and an Update on Tracks

Slow Monsoon Seasons Led to End of Chinese Dynasties

Like ice cores or tree rings, stalagmites (those are the ones that grow up from the cave floor) can record ancient history

Tyrannosaurus rex

Dinosaurs Ain’t What They Used to Be

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Turok: Realistic Dinosaurs, Unrealistic computer game

Chilled-Out Dinosaurs in the Alaskan Tundra

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Purple Rain: Tomatoes Get New Color Scheme

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You say “Velociraptor,” I say “Deinonychus”

Scientists evaluate the accuracy of raptors depicted in Jurassic Park

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Bone Wars in the Blogosphere

American author and speaker Michael Crichton speaking at Harvard.

‘Jurassic Park’ Novelist Dies at 66

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Here Be Dragons

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