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It’s fun to imagine secret dinosaur survivors living today, hidden in a remote corner of Earth. But the truth of who made it through the extinction event 66 million years ago may surprise you.
The sale of fossils at auction houses reflects a problematic trend of privileging profit over knowledge and education.
One animator combined his skills with paleontological evidence to breathe movement into a dinosaur fossil to eye-catching effect.
Almost all natural history museums and recognised public collections of fossils have in the past relied on finds purchased from private collectors, and many still do. But the role of amateur fossil collectors…
Birds are some of the brainiest creatures on earth, while their direct ancestors - the dinosaurs - are often stereotyped as dull and doomed. But a new study published today in Nature challenges this notion…
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Senior Research Scientist, South Australian Museum; Flinders University
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Palaeontologist, University of Southampton
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Senior Research Geologist and Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology, Smithsonian Institution
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Associate Professor in Evolution and Palaeobiology, University of Southampton