Remember the Alamo? Well, it’s easy to forget when you are staring at this massive dinosaur. It makes that Tyrannosaurus look…
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Dinosaurs Alamosaurus: how this massive titan’s neck is impacting relationships of titanosaurs
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Dinosaurs Identifying the sex of a T. rex
In living animals, it’s pretty easy to tell if one is a male or a female. You look at their, er, dangly…
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Dinosaurs The evolution of giants
Sauropod dinosaurs are some of the most notoriously recognisable animals. With their whiplash tails, and long searching necks, they are the biggest…
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Dinosaurs How many dinosaurs were there?
There are more than 11,000 species of bird living on Earth today. If you recognise that birds are living dinosaurs, which overwhelming…
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Dinosaurs What a pain in the…arms! A record-breaking number of injuries in a theropod dinosaur
Ouch! That word came to mind a lot while reading a new paper published today in PLOS ONE. In the new paper…
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Dinosaurs 190 million years of tetrapod biodiversity
Tetrapod is the name given to any vertebrate animal with four (tetra) legs (pod). There are more than 30,000 living species of…
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Dinosaurs The evolution of tyrannosaurs
T. rex is probably the most notorious and infamous dinosaur of all time, and somewhat of an icon in both the scientific…
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Dinosaurs Spinosaurus Devoured Meals Like a Giant Pelican
This article was originally posted by PLOS Paleo editor Jon Tennant over at Discover Magazine on January 11, 2016, featuring a paper published last week…
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Dinosaurs The Open Access Dinosaurs of 2015
The use of open access publishing in dinosaur paleontology has seen great growth over the past few years, particularly for newly named…
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Dinosaurs Thumbs up to new sail-backed dinosaur!
Many of you probably know Iguanodon as being classically depicted as ‘The Fonz’ of the Cretaceous, always posing with its thumb sticking up*…
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Dinosaurs Warty-Faced Wonder Reconfigures Horned Dinosaur Family Tree
Think of a “horned dinosaur,” and you probably think of the gigantic three-horned Triceratops, a staple in museum displays and pop cultural depictions worldwide…
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Dinosaurs Does this dinosaur make me look fat?
Body mass is probably the most important physiological features for all animals. It corresponds strongly with a range of life features, including…