A carnivorous dinosaur that once hunted in New Mexico was among the last of its kind, paleontologists say.
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T. Rex Didn’t Have Feathers, New Study of Fossil Skin Finds
A new study says Tyrannosaurus and many other large carnivores of the Cretaceous were likely covered only in scales.
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Two Ostrich Ancestors, No Bigger Than Chickens, Discovered in Wyoming Fossils
Although no bigger than chickens, a pair of 50-million-year-old fossil birds turn out to be some of the earliest known ancestors of today’s giant, flightless birds, like the ostrich and the emu.
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Dinosaur Discovered With Feathers, Skin Intact ‘Looked a Lot Like an Ostrich’
A uniquely well-preserved dinosaur found in Alberta is revealing never-before-seen traits that make the animal live up to its name: “the bird mimic.”
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Giant Feathered Dinosaur, With ‘Unprecedented’ Features, Discovered in South Dakota
Two “exceptionally large” feathered dinosaurs have been discovered in a quarry in South Dakota, a find that may help answer some crucial questions about life in the ancient West.
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Giant Crested Bird-Like Dinosaur Discovered in the Dakotas
Two teams of paleontologists were each puzzling over unusual, but incomplete, fossil skeletons of an animal they couldn’t identify, when they finally met and realized that they were all looking…
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Feathers Were ‘Peculiar’ to Special Set of Dinosaurs, New Fossil Study Finds
Some of the Ancient West’s most distinctive and downright weird dinosaur species — from the famous Tyrannosaurus rex to the odd therizinosaurs — turn out to be members of an…
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‘Unusual’ Fossil Egg Reveals Evolutionary Link Between Dinosaurs and Birds
Millions of years after the reptilian animals we know as dinosaurs disappeared, some of their traits persisted in surprising ways among their descendants — birds — a new fossil shows….
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New Feathered Dinosaur Discovered in Texas’ Big Bend National Park
Like Darwin’s many finches living side-by-side in the Galapagos Islands, a surprising variety of feathered, bird-like dinosaurs once roamed the ancient West from Alberta to Texas, scientists say. A team…
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