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Scientists discover highly well-preserved dinosaur with oldest belly button ever known

‘Exceptionally-preserved’ fossil has allowed scientists to document scales, tail bristles, and first-ever dinosaur cloaca

The Independent UK

New Zealand should celebrate its remarkable prehistoric past with national fossil emblems – have your say!

It’s not often New Zealanders admit Australia is onto a good thing. Our long-running trans-Tasman rivalry usually revolves around accusing Australians of stealing national cultural icons like Phar Lap, Pavlova or Crowded House.

The Conversation

Jurassic World Dominion: a palaeontologist on what the film gets wrong about dinosaurs

Almost 30 years after Jurassic Park first screened, the beloved franchise is back with its latest film Jurassic World Dominion, released in the UK on Friday. Our favourite characters, such as the Tyrannosaurus-rex and Velociraptor, return and we meet some new ones, like the giant predator Giganotosaurus.

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‘Dinosaurs are not us’: book reveals how mammals came to rule the world

Steve Brusatte writes of the evolutionary twists, catastrophes and luck that led to the warm-blooded animals of today

The Guardian - UK

Europe's largest meat-eating dinosaur found on Isle of Wight

Palaeontologists said they have found parts of the skeleton of the dinosaur, which lived during the Cretaceous Period

The Hindu

New prehistoric plant discovery highlights the unexpected diversity of non-flowering plants

The renowned Apple Bay fossil locality of northern Vancouver Island is helping us reimagine seed plant diversity in the Early Cretaceous, the last of three geologic periods comprising the Mesozoic Era.

The Conversation

Exhibit of Famed Prehistoric Cave to Open in Marseille

A permanent virtual exhibit of one of France’s most famous prehistoric sites, the undersea Cosquer Cave, is set to open its doors as concerns grow that it could be completely inundated as a result of rising tides driven by climate change. As of Saturday, visitors to the port city of…

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Were dinosaurs warm or cold-blooded? Scientists might finally have an answer

In a new study, researchers used a relatively novel set of laser-based techniques to measure the metabolic rates of dinosaurs.

Inverse

Dippy the Dinosaur returns to the Natural History Museum

The 85ft-long plaster cast of a diplodocus skeleton was first put on display in the London museum in 1905.

The Independent UK

Fin-tastic Creatures: Experts Find Two New Prehistoric Dolphin Species – In Swiss Alps

Scientists in Switzerland have discovered two previously unknown dolphin species that inhabited the area of today’s landlocked mountainous country 20 million years ago.

Zenger

Researchers discover most dinosaurs were warm-blooded

But scientists observed differences between the two big groups of dinosaurs, finding that Triceratops were cold-blooded and T-Rex warm-blooded.

The Independent UK

Farm vehicles are now heavier than most dinosaurs – here’s why that’s a problem

What does a modern combine harvester and a Diplodocus have in common? One answer, it seems, may be their big footprints on the soil. A new study led by researchers from Sweden and Switzerland has found that the weight of farming machinery today is approaching that of the largest animals…

The Conversation

A controversial discovery could reveal the last moments of the dinosaurs

Let’s take a look at what we know about this most important time in our planet’s history

Inverse

Tree Wrecked: Dinosaur Extinction Slowed Down Evolution Of Plants

Scientists participating in the study were also able to determine how profound the changes were.

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Giant 32-feet-long ‘death shadow’ dinosaur discovered by scientists in Argentina

Dinosaur may have been member of group that later gave rise to birds, say scientists

Salon

When dinosaurs died, plants thrived

A new study answers long-held questions about how dinosaurs' mass extinction influenced plant evolution

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Prehistoric crocodile fossil, Kronosaurus queenslandicus, lingers far from home at Harvard

While the world's only mounted Kronosaurus queenslandicus fossil is at Harvard University, palaeontologists say there are better specimens still waiting to be found in outback Queensland.

Inverse

This ancient creature developed feathers long before the dinosaurs

A pterosaur specimen from Brazil could rewrite what we know about the evolution of feathers — and the relationship between pterosaurs and dinosaurs.

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The dinosaur that died on extinction day

The astonishing fossil find appears to be from a specimen that died the same day of the Chixclub impact event

The Conversation

The discovery of two giant dinosaur species solves the mystery of missing apex predators in North America and Asia

The top predator of the Jurassic and Cretaceous landscapes was usually a species of meat-eating dinosaur. These predators walked on two legs, had powerful jaws lined with sharp teeth and included species from groups known as tyrannosaurs, spinosaurs and carcharodontosaurs.

Inverse

66-million-year-old fossil reveals injuries that suggest the dinosaur fought with its own kind

The famous Triceratops called 'Big John' probably fought with other Triceratops, its fossil suggests.

The Guardian - UK

Paleontology ‘a hotbed of unethical practices rooted in colonialism’, say scientists

The study of fossils and prehistoric species is exploitative of local communities, says international team

The Conversation

The perversion of paleontology by apartheid’s advocates still lingers

In 1925, Jan Smuts was both a prominent politician and an advocate for science. Just after the first of his two terms as prime minister of the Union of South Africa, Smuts served as president of the South African Association for the Advancement of Science. It was in this capacity…

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