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0000-0001-7794-0218Mistaken identity In Palaeontology, there is perhaps no greater story of an accidental mix-up than the story of Oviraptor. When this dinosaur was first discovered back in 1924, it was alongside a clutch of fossilised
0000-0001-7794-0218Discovering new dinosaurs is very romantic, isn’t it? A team of plucky explorers stumbles across a small bone sticking out of a cliff, and after a bit of digging around it reveals a complete dinosaur
0000-0001-7794-0218You might think dating dinosaurs would be an easy task, but in reality it’s actually quite difficult. We date dinosaurs based on where we find their fossils, using the ages of the rocks that they’re
0000-0001-7794-0218Dinosaurs come in all shapes and sizes, and were the weird wonderful show-offs of the Mesozoic world. From massive, plated body armour to elaborate frilly head shields and rock solid bone-heads, they sported just about
0000-0001-7794-0218This is a guest post by Matt Baron, a PhD student at the University of Cambridge, UK. Take a walk around the Free State of South Africa, or, if you fancy it, Lesotho (le-sOO-tOO), and you
0000-0001-7794-0218The Australian outback. Known for a few, very specific things. Kangaroos. Sand. Lots of animals that want to kill you. More sand. Paul Hogan. And dinosaurs! Some of the very best dinosaur fossils we know
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
0000-0001-7794-0218Did you know that birds and crocodiles are practically cousins? Around 230 million years ago, you wouldn’t have been able to tell the difference between the two different lineages. This is because birds and crocodilians
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
0000-0001-7794-0218In living animals, it’s pretty easy to tell if one is a male or a female. You look at their, er, dangly bits, or lack of them, observe their mating behaviour, and also see how
