The semi-aquatic dinosaur, Spinosaurus mirabilis, was discovered by an international team of scientists working in Niger.
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A photographer discovers miles of dinosaur tracks near Italy’s Winter Olympic venues
A nature photographer stumbled upon thousands of 210-million-year-old dinosaur tracks in Italy’s central Alps, near where some Olympic skiing and snowboarding events will be held in February.
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How a great-grandmother helped researchers unravel a dinosaur mummy mystery
A paleontologist was trying to locate the site of a famous 1908 discovery when a rancher in Wyoming shared an important clue.
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A spine-tingling discovery: This dinosaur had spiked body armor
In a new paper, researchers describe a bizarre dinosaur with thorny spines along its neck and back that made its home in Africa more than 165 million years ago.
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66 million years ago, a fish chewed up and spit out food. It’s now a fossil in Denmark
The fossil was found at a cliff in Denmark. Fossilized vomit is called regurgitalite, and it’s a type of trace fossil, which tells scientists about an organism’s daily life.
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Jurassic footprints are discovered on a ‘dinosaur highway’ in southern England
The 166-million-year-old footprint tracks, found at a quarry in southern England, mark one of the largest discoveries in decades.
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Small fossil has big implications for bird brain evolution
Birds descended from the dinosaurs, but researchers have known relatively little about how the bird’s brain took shape over millions of years. A new fossil sheds light on that mystery.
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Dinosaurs unearthed in China may have ended with a collapse, not a catastrophe
There’s an area in China that’s home to a huge trove of dinosaur fossils. It used to be thought it was formed through a Pompeii-like volcanic eruption, stopping dinosaurs in their tracks. But new evidence has come to light about how it likely came to be.
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Matching dinosaur prints were found an ocean apart in Africa and South America
A group of scientists say in new research that matching dinosaur tracks found in modern-day Brazil and Cameroon were made 120 million years ago in an area that once connected the two continents.
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A newly-discovered dinosaur may have spent part of its life underground
A new dinosaur has been discovered in Utah by North Carolina researchers and paleontologists. They believe it was a burrowing species.
