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Dinosaurs

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G.I. Joe vs. Dinosaurs

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Thomas Henry Huxley and the Dinobirds

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Dinosaur Sighting: Frosty the Tyrannosaurus

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Dinosaur Drive-In: Triassic Attack

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Need a Hand? Don’t Ask an Abelisaurid

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How to Turn a Tyrannosaur Into a Iguanodont

Discoverer of more dinosaur species than any other living scientist, Xu Xing says some dinosaurs have birdlike traits, including feathers.

Dinosaurs’ Living Descendants

China’s spectacular feathered fossils have finally answered the century-old question about the ancestors of today’s birds

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A “Perverted” View of Bird Evolution

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Blog Carnival #26: Career Advice, Pink Floyd, Colorado Fossils and More…

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This Thanksgiving, Make a Wish on a Dinosaur

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Two New Dinosaurs From Utah: Hippodraco and Iguanacolossus

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Koreaceratops—A Swimming Ceratopsian?

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A New View of Ankylosaur Feet

Richard Stone is the Asia News Editor for Science magazine and author of "Dinosaurs' Living Descendants" in the December 2010 issue of Smithsonian magazine.

Richard Stone on “Dinosaurs’ Living Descendants”

Artist's impression of a group of giant azhdarchids, Quetzalcoatlus northropi, foraging on a Cretaceous fern prairie. A juvenile titanosaur has been caught by one pterosaur, while the others stalk through the scrub in search of small vertebrates and other food.

Why a Pterosaur is Not a Dinosaur

Calling a pterosaur a dinosaur is an error of the same order of magnitude as saying that our species is a marsupial

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Dinosaur Comics Stampede

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Tyrannosaurus Had Extra Junk in the Trunk

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Two New Theropod Dinosaurs From China

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Stegosaurs Walked Like Sauropods

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Unexpected Horned Dinosaur Reveals Complex Evolutionary Pattern

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