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Imagine stumbling upon a fossil so delicate that it reveals the ghostly outline of ancient feathers, hinting at a lost world ...
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“Fossil dinosaur footprints tend to be vastly under-rated even by many (paleontologists),” Romilio said in an email. But in Australia, since the oldest fossilized dinosaur bones come from the ...
Scientists have raised concerns about the lack of Tyrannosaurus rex fossils for their research due to wealthy individuals buying them all. The mighty T. rex is one of the most iconic dinosaurs ...
The number of dinosaurs may have been stable before the asteroid impact, despite evidence that species were getting less ...
A group of Earth scientists believes they probably were not. While it’s true that fossils from the final dinosaur era are comparatively rare compared to those that came before, it seems the ...
However, at face value, the fossils available for study from this time — more than 8,000 — suggest the number of dinosaur species peaked about 75 million years ago and then declined in the 9 ...
Patrick began fossil hunting as a teen; on one of their first dates, he and Annie went searching for dinosaur eggs. Once simmering, the debate over who gets to hunt for dinosaur fossils has become ...
For nearly three decades, scientists have debated whether dinosaur species were actually declining long before the space rock wiped them out. A decline in fossil records from around 75 million ...