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Some of the new finds are the first evidence of these types of dinosaurs from Australia.
Fossilised tracks of a group of plant-eating dinosaurs have been found in Lesotho’s Roma Valley for the first time.
The feet of a bird tell us a lot about its life. Newly described, the fossil feet of the ancestors of modern birds reveal how superbly adapted they were to their world.
A newly discovered dinosaur has small arms and a large head, similar to Tyrannosaurus rex. Estimated to have died at 50 years old, it’s also one of the oldest individual dinosaurs on record.
Fossil footprints are a treasure chest of information.
A detailed study of ornithopod jawbones from a single site reveals a high dinosaur diversity in Victoria during the late Early Cretaceous.
By looking at the eye bones and ear canals of extinct dinosaurs, researchers show that a small ancient predator likely hunted at night and had senses as good as a modern barn owl.
66 million years ago, birds survived the calamity that wiped out all prehistoric dinosaurs. But could birds once again evolve into their long lost ancestors?
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Research Associate, School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Curtin University
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Lecturer, University of Cape Town
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Earth Sciences, Carleton University
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Palaeontologist, Earth Science Faculty, University of New England
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Professor of Palaeobiology, University of Oxford
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Professor of Dinosaur Paleontology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate Professor of Biology, Scripps College