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What was the biggest dinosaur that ever lived? Here’s how scientists make those gigantic measurements
Scientists use different methods to calculate size and weight so they don’t always agree, but judging by bones found, a good ...
Creature preserved in 99 million-year-old amber was ‘beyond imagination,’ scientists say
A newly identified parasitic wasp that buzzed and flew among dinosaurs 99 million years ago evolved a bizarre mechanism, ...
Albuquerque Journal2d
NM paleontologist on team researching new dinosaur species
More than 90 million years ago, a creature with a long neck and two claw-baring fingers roamed the Earth, grabbing plants and ...
Live Science2d
Scientists uncover 'inside-out, legless, headless wonder' that lived long before the dinosaurs
Fossils of 444 million-year-old creatures whose bodies were preserved "inside-out" have been discovered in South Africa.
Earth’s 5 catastrophic mass extinctions, explained
Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing ...
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A New Species Of Dinosaur With Strange Claws Has Been Discovered In The Gobi Desert
In Mongolia, a new species of dinosaur with strange claws has been unearthed by paleontologists. It was discovered in the […] ...
Fossils of weird Mongolian dinosaur that wielded ‘big, sharp and nasty’ claws unearthed during construction project
The dinosaur, named Duonychus tsogtbaatari, measured about 10 feet (3 meters) long, weighed approximately 575 pounds (260 kg) ...
Smithsonian Magazine3d
Dinosaur With Two Massive, Sloth-Like Claws Is on ‘Another Level’ of Weird—Even Among Its Unusual Group of Relatives
Paleontologists discovered Duonychus tsogtbaatari from fossils uncovered in 2012. It was a giant, feathered creature adapted ...