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Paleontologists recently solved the riddle of whether two fossil specimens were young T. rexes or a whole different species.

1877 was a banner year for American dinosaurs: three major finds in the West turned the region into a "paleontologist's El Dorado."

During a slow day at work, a young marble cutter named Willis O’Brien began sculpting tiny T-Rex figurines.

Since the 1950s, scientists have been proposing supernovae as catalysts for mass extinctions. But can it be proven?

Dinosaur bones on display at the American Museum of Natural History always balanced conveying objective truth with promoting science to the public.

Everyone loves dinosaurs. Perhaps less well-known are their cousins, the pterosaurs. Pterosaurs could fly, and were closely related ...

Middlemen sell fossils to the highest bidder, whether it’s a museum or a wealthy collector who wants their own stegosaurus.

How do we know that a meteor caused the extinction of the dinosaurs?

How can anything besides bones remain from so many millions of years ago?

What killed the dinosaurs? An asteroid wiped them out, right? New research suggests that even before that cataclysm, dinosaurs weren't doing so well.

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