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0000-0001-7794-0218Over the last 20 years, there has grown insurmountable evidence that birds are the direct modern descendants of dinosaurs. Eagles are dinosaurs. Pigeons are dinosaurs, annoyingly. Even penguins are weird, swimming dinosaurs. The data supporting this comes
0000-0001-7794-0218A new study shows that teeth are not too good for you if you’re a dinosaur trying to not go extinct. Around 66 million years ago, a time known as the end-Cretaceous, there was a
0000-0001-7794-0218Penguins are amazing creatures. They belong to a group called Sphenisciformes, and are one of the few flightless groups of bird. They are beautifully adapted to life in the water, where they spend around half
Horned dinosaurs (ceratopsians) just can’t catch a break when it comes to their fossilized eggs. The first purported examples turned up in Mongolia during the 1920s, attributed to Protoceratops. A few unlucky “Protoceratops” eggs were fossilized next to the
Don’t mess with Hesperornis. It was a flightless, aquatic Cretaceous bird that measured up to six feet long, had a beak lined with sharp teeth, and was partially responsible for the downfall of at least one
The name “moa” inevitably conjures up pictures of giant, lumbering bird-beasts, destined for extinction at the hands of humans. For fans of paleontological history, we usually recollect the grumpy looking Victorian era paleontologist Richard Owen,
