Dinosaur long-necked for a reason: experts
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Fossilised remains found in southern China may hold the answer to a question that has long stumped palaeontologists: Just what is the purpose of the long neck on a group of predatory reptiles that roamed the earth millions of years ago?
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A fabled fossil goes on view for the first time in decades  -  and ignites a controversy
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Scientists have found the remains of a dinosaur in a fossilized mammal's stomach, a discovery that upends decades of scientific belief about the relationship between dinosaurs and mammals.
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CHINESE palaeontologists said they had found feathers on the fossilised legs of a primitive bird, which backs controversial theories that birds descended from four-limbed dinosaurs.
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Science & environment: Fearsome dinosaur made famous in the Jurassic Park films probably more closely resembled a big turkey, scientists have discovered.
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Science & environment: Â· Scientists shed new light on disputed skeleton findÂ· Bone analysis supports distinct species theory
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Scientists have uncovered the fossil skeleton of a robust bird-like dinosaur that lived 70 million years ago.
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French and Chinese paleontologists have identified the fossil of a two-headed reptile from a species that lived in what is now China nearly 150 million years ago.
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Dinosaurs shared the Earth for millions of years with the species that were their ancestors, a new study concludes.
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Fossil hunters say they have discovered bones of two massive meat-eating dinosaurs in Africa. In the journal Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, University of Chicago paleontologist Paul Sereno and co-author Stephen Brusatte named one Kryptops palaios, or "old hidden face," because of a horny covering over its face.
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In China, scientists have identified the fossilized remains of a tiny dinosaur in the stomach of a mammal. Scientists say the animal's last meal probably is the first proof that mammals hunted small dinosaurs some 130 million years ago.
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Fossilized dinosaurs often have wide-open mouths, heads thrown back and tails that curve toward the head. Paleontologists have long assumed the dinosaurs died in water and the currents drifted the bones into that position, or that rigor mortis or drying muscles, tendons and ligaments contorted the limbs.  &quot;I&#39;m reading this in the literature and thinking, &#39;This doesn&#39;t make any sense to me as a veterinarian,&#39;&quot; said Cynthia Marshall Faux, a veterinarian-turned-paleontologist at the Museum of the Rockies. ...
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Fossils found in the United States show dinosaurs lived along side their ancestors for tens of millions of years, disproving long-held theories assuming they quickly replaced their predecessors, according to a new study.
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The remains of a giant, birdlike dinosaur as tall as the formidable tyrannosaur have been found in China, a surprising discovery that indicates a more complicated evolutionary process for birds than originally thought, scientists said Wednesday.
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A new fossil of a juvenile dinosaur that lived 140 million years ago is shedding light on how the ancient reptiles grew from youngsters to enormous adults.
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An astonishing new fossil uncovered in a remote region of China has overturned accepted views of the relationship between dinosaurs and early mammals.
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The Louis Armstrong of the late Cretaceous? Researchers led by the Utah Museum of Natural History at the University of Utah have unearthed a new species of dinosaur - a massive plant-eater belonging to the hadrosaur group of plant-eating duck-billed dinos, which may have had the ability to bang out a tune using a fan-shaped bony crest on its skull.â¦