Fossils suggest that the bipedal dinosaur occasionally walked on all fours and could open its mouth wide to gather foliage.
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Scorpionflies with long-reaching mouthparts may have helped plants procreate long before blossoms evolved.
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Fossil analyses hint that several species thrived during the world’s largest mass extinction.
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An infection known to afflict modern birds may have led to starvation in several dinosaurs.
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Paleontologists in Bristol, England, at the annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology report on fish fossils in Wyoming, the loss of Australia’s megafauna and the smallest dinosaur tracks.
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Paleontologists in Bristol, England, at the annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology report on fish fossils in Wyoming, the loss of Australia’s megafauna and the smallest dinosaur tracks.Scientists have uncovered a feather-laden, peacock-sized dinosaur that predates the oldest known bird. Paleontologists discover fossilized skeleton of bus-sized marine reptile that had teeth with serrated edges. Fossils of new species suggest peculiar features weren’t limited to the biggest dinosaurs Nanostructures on a preserved feather offer the first fossil evidence of bird colors not from pigments, a new study says. |
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