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Category: dinosaurs
Sotheby’s big T. rex auction raises concerns hype and wealth are upending science
Private buyers are increasingly outbidding museums for fossils. Forget the sale of the century. The auction house Sotheby’s has geared […]
Tiny, long-armed dinosaur leads to rethink of dinosaur miniaturization
Small size seems to have come before a change in diet for a tiny dinosaur lineage. Alvarezsaurids were mostly small-bodied […]
A unicorn-like Spinosaurus found in the Sahara
But there was one thing that made S. mirabilis different from S. aegyptiacus. The word “mirabilis” in the newly discovered […]
Dinosaur eggshells can reveal the age of other fossils
Skip to content Like rocks, egg shells can trap isotopes, allowing us to use them to date samples. When dinosaur […]
Dinosaurs may have flourished right up to when the asteroid hit
That seemingly changes as of now, with new argon dating of strata from the Naashoibito Member in the San Juan […]
New dinosaur species is the punk rock version of an ankylosaur
And we have known for sure that the armor was around back then, given that we’ve found the skin-derived osteoderms […]
For giant carnivorous dinosaurs, big size didn’t mean a big bite
“And then you have the Spinosaurus which was kind of weird in general,” Rowe says. “There was a study by […]