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Scientists just dug up a new dinosaur—with tinier arms than a T.RexMay 21, 2024 – The 70-million-year-old meat-eater stalked South America during the Cretaceous, a new study says.
How to bring a 75-foot-long dinosaur back to lifeAugust 13, 2024 – A team of scientists and artists transformed a jumble of bones entombed in tons of rock into a towering dinosaur that will leave visitors to L.A.'s Natural History Museum wonderstruck.
We just learned where the asteroid that ended dinosaurs came fromAugust 15, 2024 – Geological clues suggest that the space rock that created Chicxulub crater was a carbonaceous chondrite meteorite.
This dinosaur dug its own graveJuly 17, 2024 – The bones of a newly discovered plant-eating species revealed its underground lifestyle.
They were rock stars of paleontology—and their feud was legendaryMay 21, 2024 – Othniel Marsh and Edward Cope each discovered troves of dinosaur fossils in the 19th century—but grew obsessed with bringing each other down in the Bone Wars.
9 ways to experience Canada’s natural beautyJune 04, 2024 – From canoeing Ontario lakes to digging for clams on Prince Edward Island, here’s how to get to know this vast and varied country.
New fossils reveal one of the smallest titanosaurs ever foundApril 11, 2024 – Ten times smaller than other titanosaurs, Titanomachya gimenezi reveals new details about life in ancient Patagonia before the asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs.
See how these fierce dinos evolved in our pages over 100 yearsMarch 11, 2024 – T. rexes and other theropods first appeared in National Geographic in 1919. But each new discovery since brought a new look for these apex predators.
Rare fossils reveal a stunning scene from the final days of the dinosaursOctober 25, 2023 – A herd of hadrosaurs. A tiny Cretaceous mammal. The tooth of a predator. An “exceptional” fossil site in South America is giving scientists a new window into the end of the dinosaur age.
Could 'The Last of Us' or 'Jurassic Park' really happen? We asked scientists about sci-fi movies.December 29, 2023 – Science fiction often exaggerates or distorts science for dramatic effect—but many movies and TV shows have a nugget of realism at their core.
U.S. charges poaching ring allegedly involved in massive Utah dinosaur bone heistOctober 19, 2023 – After being excavated and fashioned into dinosaur dig kits, carved figurines, jewelry, and more for sale, "tens of thousands of pounds of dinosaur bones have lost virtually all scientific value.”
Dino nuggets ... for dinosaurs? A young tyrannosaur’s last meal gives new insightDecember 08, 2023 – The preserved gut contents of a juvenile Gorgosaurus shows these meat-eaters picked off bird-like dinosaurs as they honed their hunting skills, supporting a theory that tyrannosaurs targeted different prey as they grew.
The 11 most astonishing scientific discoveries of 2023December 06, 2023 – Space-time breakthroughs. Virgin births. A promising candidate for alien life. Science didn’t disappoint during our latest revolution around the sun.
Reimagining DinosaursGroundbreaking new science is changing what we know about how dinosaurs looked – and how they lived. Using cutting-edge new technology, scientists have unearthed the secrets of how dinosaurs looked, lived, and perished.
Early spinosaur bones reveal the rise of an unusual dinosaur dynastyMay 18, 2023 – The discovery of yet more spinosaur bones in Spain—one of the oldest known spinosaur species ever found—underscores that this river monster’s family tree originates in western Europe.
