Beetles and dinos living together
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Today's beetles evolved during the Jurassic Period and have persisted ever since, say scientists.
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A fossil of a new crab species reveals the itsy-bitsy crustaceans inhabited towering sponge reefs during the Jurassic Period, where they made tasty snacks for ichthyosaurs and other ancient reptiles.
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Parents have been doting over their offspring for a very, very long time, it seems. A South African fossil suggests pelycosaurs -- intermediates between reptiles and mammals that lived in the Permian Period before the rise of dinosaurs -- may have been caring parents 260 million years ago, scientists said on Wednesday.
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A frog the size of a bowling ball, with heavy armor and teeth, lived among dinosaurs millions of years ago Â intimidating enough that scientists who unearthed its fossils dubbed the beast Beelzebufo, or Devil Toad.
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The extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago can be traced to a collision between two monster rocks in the asteroid belt nearly 100 million years earlier, scientists report on Wednesday.
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Fossils  uncovered in New Mexico  show dinosaurs co-existed with a closely related group of reptiles for millions  of years before overtaking them to become the dominant land animals on Earth.
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Fossils from two newly discovered  meat-eating dinosaurs that lived in the Sahara Desert 110  million years ago paint a fearsome picture of life in Africa's  Cretaceous period, which appears to have been teeming with  unusual carnivores.
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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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Using computer programs,scientists have suceeded in reconstructing the DNA of a creature that lived at the time of the dinosaurs more than 75 million years ago, a small, furry nocturnal animal that was the common ancestor of all placental mammals
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The group of dinosaurs that evolved into birds had small genomes, according to a study by US and British biologists that appears on Thursday in the journal Nature.
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Are you brave enough to share an evening in the forest with a bunch of life-size dinosaurs with 6-inch teeth? How about spending time with a walking, growling 45-foot tall, 75-foot long Brachiosaurus that seems to be looking around for its next meal &#151; perhaps among the spectators at "Walking With Dinosaurs," which opens its North American tour on July 11 in Tacoma.
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LONDON - Fossil hunters have gained a glimpse of a new species of dinosaur catching some zzz&#39;s. The 130-million-year old Mei long, which means &quot;soundly sleeping dragon,&quot; was found near Beipiao City in Liaoning province, northeastern China.
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Paleontologists have discovered a species of protorosaur, and they think the fossils hold the solution to the mystery of long-necked 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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Good news for dinosaur fans: There are probably a lot more of them waiting to be discovered. At least, their fossils are.
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Scientists say they have found a small, earlier cousin of Tyrannosaurus rex that had at least a partial coat of feathers. Includes image gallery.
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A new species of duck-billed dinosaur unearthed in Mexico is helping scientists fill in gaps in the fossil record of the Age of Dinosaurs.