Protorosaur which came out of the gloom
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By the time its prey knew it was coming, it was probably far too late. Cruising murky coastal waters in search of food, the creature made magnificent use of its slender neck, nearly twice the length of its
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At least 50 percent of the world's species, including the dinosaurs, went extinct 65 million years ago. While most scientists now blame this catastrophe on a large meteorite impact, others wonder if there is more to the story.
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Chinese palaeontologists have uncovered the most complete fossil yet of an ancestral tyrannosaur, and found that filamentary protofeathers covered its body.
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Scientists from the  United States and Argentina have recovered the fossil skeleton  of a young plesiosaur -- a marine reptile that lived some 70  million years ago -- in Antarctica, institutes from both  countries said on Monday.
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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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WASHINGTON -- A newly discovered fossil might be the remains of one of the first stealth hunters, a swimming dinosaur that could use its long neck to sneak up on prey and strike without warning.
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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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RIO DE JANEIRO -- Scientists have found well-preserved fossils of a new dinosaur species that lived 225 million years ago in southern Brazil but had its closest relatives in what is now Europe, Brazilian paleontologists said yesterday.
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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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An astonishing collection of fossil animals from southern Australia is reported by scientists.
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Science & environment: Dinosaurs may have been pushed towards extinction by humble insects, not meteorites
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A 121-million-year-old fossil of an unhatched bird has been found in China. The fossil suggests early bird species, like dinosaurs, were well developed at birth, scientists say.
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Dinosaurs may not all have been the terrifying creatures portrayed in blockbuster films but could have had a more caring, loving nature.
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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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LONDON - The earliest known relative of the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex had primitive feathers, probably to help it keep warm. Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing found the remains of the
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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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By Chen Liang  In "The Age of Dinosaurs," it was not just birds and pterosaurs (winged reptiles) that flew as thought till now  there was also a "flying squirrel" which could glide down from treetops like a bat.