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Welcome to our latest blog—Dinosaur Tracking
In our “Dinosaur Tracking” blog, we’ll delve into everyone’s favorite extinctanimal group and the lost worlds they so nobly inhabited
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Michelle Coffey moves from biology class to the Bighorn Basin and prepares for her first dinosaur dig
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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: Days 6, 7 and 8
The team survives the Death March dig and makes an essential stop in Thermopolis
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Dinosaur Dispatch: Days 9, 10 and 11
A new site and more digging yields a dinosaur discovery
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The paleontology team bids a fond farewell to Wyoming’s Big Basin
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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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The Strange Lives of Polar Dinosaurs
How did they endure months of perpetual cold and dark?
Taking a Dinosaur’s Temperature
Polar species heat up one of paleontology’s great debates
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Paleontologist William Hammer hunts dinosaur fossils in the Antarctic
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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
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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