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Fossils

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A New, Giant Predatory Dinosaur From Spain

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Scientists Race to Salvage Fossils Before Panama Canal Expansion

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“Baby Dinosaur” Appears on Rock

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Dinosaur Finger Points to Bird Evolution

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Filling in the Dinosaur Family Tree

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A New Look For Asia’s Ancient “Shark Tooth Dragon”

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The Sauropod Posture Debate, Part Eleventy

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On the Trail of an Unknown Dinosaur

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Walking With Primates

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An Ichthyosaur Found at a Rest Stop

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Texas Gets a New State Dinosaur

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Swimming Proto-Birds?

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What’s New About Hadrosaur Goo

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Much Ado About Chicxulub

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Xiongguanlong: A New, Long-nosed Tyrannosaurid

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No Time for Protohadros

Carlos Jaramillo (top row, third from the right), a staff scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, co-organized the team that discovered the largest snake in world history.

Discovering the Titanoboa

As part of a multi-organizational team, Smithsonian scientist Carlos Jaramillo uncovered the fossils of a gigantic snake

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Did Sauropods Hold their Heads High?

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Did Juvenile Triceratops Hang Out in Gangs?

Fossil prospector Ron Frithiof (with a mosasaur from his collections) was sued over a T. rex that he uncovered. "This whole experience," he says, "has been a disaster."

The Dinosaur Fossil Wars

Across the American West, legal battles over dinosaur fossils are on the rise as amateur prospectors make major finds

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