Evolution
The Rise and Fall of the Shark-Toothed Dinosaurs
Carcharodontosaurs were the world's most impressive carnivores before the big tyrannosaur takeover.
Stories by Riley Black
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When Protomammals Ruled Earth
A new study changes our understanding of how ancient forest collapse changed the course of life on Earth
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Stocking the Mesozoic Salad Bar
A new study estimates how much vegetation was needed to keep giant dinosaurs fed
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The Jurassic's Big 5
If you could travel back to the time of the Morrison Formation, these are the dinosaurs you'd see
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Digging into Pterosaur Diets
Despite almost two centuries of study, we're still just getting to know these flying reptiles
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Early Primates Groomed with Claws
Fossils found in Wyoming help refine our understanding of when early primates switched claws for nails
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Raptors of a Feather
Trackways from China throw further support to the idea that Velociraptor-like dinosaurs were sometimes social
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What Did Dinosaur Tongues Look Like?
Despite their diversity in size and shape, most dinosaurs probably had very similar tongues
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Paleo Profile: The Wine Lizard
An exceptionally preserved fossil lizard is named after one of southern Italy's wines
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Terrible Teeth Reveal How Dinosaurs Chomped
Big or small, the teeth or carnivorous dinosaurs were adapted to a particular method of shredding flesh
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Paleo Profile: The Stardust Beast
A mammal from the age of dinosaurs is named after one of David Bowie's personas.
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Paleo Profile: The Nonsense Beetle
A fossil beetle enclosed in amber carries an unusual name
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A Bite out of Time
A dinosaur's rib shows evidence of a traumatic encounter with a carnivore
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A Tiny Reason for Big Dinosaurs to Gather Together
Transmission of essential bacteria might have given herbivorous dinosaurs an additional reason to form herds
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Is This Going to Be a Stand-Up Fight, Sir, or Another Sloth Hunt?
Ice age tracks show how humans harassed giant ground sloths
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Paleontologists Investigate a Jurassic Bite
A damaged bone at Dinosaur National Monument reveals the feeding habits of a Jurassic carnivore
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Sauropods in the Shallows
Tracks in Scotland record Jurassic strolls along a lagoon
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Dinosaurs Didn't Die from Cretaceous Cramps
A strange paper offers an odd idea for why nonavian dinosaurs died out. It doesn't hold up to scrutiny
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Paleo Profile: Martin's Sea Turtle
This Cretaceous chelonian is close to the origin of the hard-shelled sea turtles that still swim the oceans
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The Dinosaur That Wasn't
Bones previously thought to be dinosaurian have turned out to be from a very different sort of prehistoric creature
