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Dinosaurs

A tiny blob of stretchy brown matter, soft tissue from inside the leg bone, suggests the specimen had not completely decomposed.

Dinosaur Shocker

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

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Head’s Up

From a computer-generated model, sculptors cast a bronze triceratops that Looks like the real thing

Samples of rock from Chicxulub Crater

A Tale of Two Rocks

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

Tyrannosaurus rex

Digging for Dinosaur Gold

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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