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- Life
Alligators breathe like birds
Tricky measurements of flow reveal that air moves through the animal in one direction.
- Paleontology
Parasite may have felled a mighty T. rex
An infection known to afflict modern birds may have led to starvation in several dinosaurs.
- Paleontology
Tiny T. rex-like tyrants
Fossils of new species suggest peculiar features weren’t limited to the biggest dinosaurs
- Earth
Ancient marine reptiles losing their cool
Warm-bloodedness may help explain the creatures’ evolutionary success, a new study suggests.
- Paleontology
Flexible molars made chewing champions out of duck-billed dinosaurs
Tiny scratches in the fossilized teeth of Edmontosaurus suggest what these large herbivores ate and how they ate it.
- Paleontology
Diggin’ dinos
Structures found in Australian rocks may be the filled-in remains of the world’s oldest dinosaur burrows.
- Paleontology
Fish death, mammal extinction and tiny dino footprints
Paleontologists in Bristol, England, at the annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology report on fish fossils in Wyoming, the loss of Australia’s megafauna and the smallest dinosaur tracks.
- Paleontology
Bird in the hand
Fossilized fingers strengthen evolutionary link between dinosaurs and avian relatives.
- Paleontology
Dinosaur handprints reveal birdlike arm anatomy
Inward-facing palms evolved much earlier than previously recognized, a new study finds.
- Life
Dinosaur day care dads
A new study shows some male dinosaurs may have been the primary caretakers of their young.
- Earth
Darwinopterus points to chunky evolution
A newly discovered pterosaur had the legs of its ancestors and the head of its descendants.
- Life
Dinosaur fossil reveals creature of a different feather
Paleontologists have discovered a fossil partially covered with broad, unbranched filaments — a type of structure previously theorized to exist on primitive feathered dinosaurs but not found until now.
