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Remarkable set of tracks suggests different dinosaurs herded together

Late Cretaceous dinosaur tracks found in Canada might have been made by different species walking together, but the evidence is far from conclusive

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Spectacular Triassic reptile had an early kind of feathers

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Ancient animal's fossilised brain prompts rethink of spider evolution

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Small, stocky dinosaur related to Velociraptor named as new species

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Oldest proteins yet recovered from 18-million-year-old teeth

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Ancient mass extinction shows how Earth turned into a super-greenhouse

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Enigmacursor dinosaur in conservation

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A closer look at Enigmacursor, the newly discovered dinosaur species

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Enigmatic lizards somehow survived near Chicxulub asteroid impact

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Small and speedy dinosaur recognised as a new species

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Sauropod dinosaur's last meal reveals that it didn't bother to chew

A sauropod dinosaur fossil has been found with preserved stomach contents for the first time, providing insights into what they ate and how

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Rethink of fossils hints dinosaurs still thrived before asteroid hit

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Scientists perform necropsy on baby woolly mammoth

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Ancient wasp may have used its rear end to trap flies

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Bizarre fossil may have been an entirely new type of life

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