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Jurassic Park, and the diabolically sumptuous pleasure of watching dinosaurs enjoy a human feast
Manik Sharma •To see a couple of privileged folk, frantically trying to scramble their way to safety, their faces whiter than their original white after what they have just seen. It is oddly satisfying to see how it ends for them, because I know it will.
Big John, world's largest Triceratops fossil, to go under the hammer at Paris auction house
Fp Staff •The bones of the 66 million year old dinosaur, described as ‘miracle of nature and work of art’, is expected to be sold for an estimated $1.8 million on 21 October
Introducing Australotitan: Australia's largest dinosaur was as big as two buses combined
•Nicknamed Cooper, it lived in southwest Queensland between 92–96 million years ago, when Australia was attached to Antarctica.
Remains of massive plant-eating lizard in Argentina likely the largest, oldest ever found
•Titanosaurs, thought to have been among the largest animals to walk the Earth, may have lived longer ago than previously thought.
Dinosaur migration was partly delayed by climate, herbivores took longer to traverse North: Study
•All the early dinosaurs appear to originate in modern-day South America, some 230 million years ago, after which they moved North.
Climate change reference curve spanning 66 mn years made using ocean sediments
Trendingdesk •The reconstruction and analysis show that Earth's climate can be grouped into discrete states, based on changing greenhouse gas levels and growth of polar ice sheets.
Bones of herbivorous dinosaur show it lived with malignant cancer, only to die in a flood
Trendingdesk •The bone of the dinosaur was discovered in Alberta in 1989 and could be dated back to 76 million years ago.
Scientists identify new dinosaur species as the largest flying mammal to live
•Despite their large size and wide distribution, only fragmentary remains have been unearthed.
Fifteen fossilized dinosaur eggs provide clues on prehistoric parenting skills
•The eggs were found by dinosaur hunters in the Javkhlant region of the Gobi Desert in Mongolia.
Fossil found in 1980 in Texas has been identified as a new dinosaur species
•It is been identified as a species of the duckbilled dinosaur because of its aquiline nose and shovel-shaped jaw