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Topic: Dinosaurs

Dolphin in aquarium (Getty Images/vdorse)

Gaze and the evolution of empathy

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Stan, a replica of a Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton, looms below a hand-painted sky on the ceiling in the Childrens Library inside the Cerritos Library in Cerritos on Sunday, November 27, 2022. (Leonard Ortiz/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images)

Was T. rex really as smart as primates?

Matthew Rozsa
Illustration of Pteranodon sp. flying reptiles watching a massive meteor approaching Earth's surface. (Getty Images/MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Did climate change kill most dinosaurs?

Matthew Rozsa
A Camptosaurus (L) and an Allosaurus skeletons are displayed on November 13, 2018 at the Artcurial auction house in Paris. (STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN/AFP via Getty Images)

Dinosaur cannibalism was common: study

Nicole Karlis
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Artist’s impression of Balaenognathus maeuseri (Artwork by Megan Jacobs)

Jurassic mix between flamingo and whale

Troy Farah
Life reconstruction of the 120-million-year-old bird Cratonavis zhui (Zhao Chuang/Chinese Academy of Sciences)

The dinosaur–bird missing link fossil

Troy Farah
A segment of Dakota fossil, mummified Edmontosaurus annectens (Kabacchi/Wikimedia Commons)

How to mummify a dinosaur

Troy Farah
This illustration depicts NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft prior to impact at the Didymos binary asteroid system. (NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben)

NASA spacecraft collides with asteroid

Troy Farah
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Illustration of a tyrannosaurus as an asteroid strikes the Earth. (Getty Images/MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

The dinosaur-killing asteroid had a twin

Matthew Rozsa
Tyrannosaurus rex dinosaur (Getty Images/ROGER HARRIS/SPL)

The real world behind "Jurassic World"

Matthew Rozsa
Owen Grady (Chris Pratt) and a Parasaurolophus in "Jurassic World: Dominion" (Universal Pictures / Amblin Entertainment)

The museum of "Jurassic World: Dominion”

Alison Stine
Velociraptor dinosaur in lush green jungle (Getty Images/Chris Clor)

The warm-blooded dino debate — solved

Matthew Rozsa
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Triceratops grazing on a magnolia tree next to cycas (Getty Images/Stocktrek Images)

When dinosaurs died, plants thrived

Matthew Rozsa
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The dinosaur that died on extinction day

Nicole Karlis
Family of T-rex (Getty Images)

Tyrannosaurs hunted in packs: study

Matthew Rozsa
The silhouetted forms of a pair of courting sauropod dinosaurs (Getty Images)

Exactly how did dinosaurs have sex?

Matthew Rozsa
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Tyrannosaurus-rex (Getty Images)

Scientists just did a T. Rex census

Matthew Rozsa
Two Pterosaurs and a chimpanzee (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Meet the ancient "monkeydactyl"

Matthew Rozsa
The skull and jaw of an Allosaurus skeleton is displayed at the Drouot auction house, in Paris on October 9, 2020 (THOMAS COEX/AFP via Getty Images)

The dino named for being scary

Matthew Rozsa
Antique Illustration, "Scene during the Lower Oolite Period (Ichthyosaurus, Plesiosaurus, a Marsupial, etc)" (Getty Images)

Primates coexisted with dinosaurs: study

Matthew Rozsa
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Life restoration of Kongonaphon kely, a newly described reptile near the ancestry of dinosaurs and pterosaurs, shown to scale with human hands. The fossils of Kongonaphon were found in Triassic (~237 million years ago) rocks in southwestern Madagascar and demonstrate the existence of remarkably small animals along the dinosaurian stem (Frank Ippolito/American Museum of Natural History)

Meet dinosaurs' tiny ancestor

Matthew Rozsa
(Getty/Orla)

"First Giant” dinosaur discovered

Nicole Karlis
(Getty/para827)

Don't bring back the dinosaurs

Steve Brusatte

Asteroid just misses Earth

Keith A. Spencer
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