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An artist’s illustration of a giant tyrannosaur watching the duckbill dinosaur ‘Parasaurolophus’ in New Mexico during the late Cretaceous (74-75 million years ago).

‘Unusually large’ tyrannosaur leg bone points to 10,000-pound behemoth

By Laura Baisas

Spinosaurus mirabilis illustration

New dinosaur discovered in Sahara desert was a horned ‘hell heron’

an illustration of a dinosaur biting another dinosaur

A Tyrannosaurus tooth embedded in dinosaur skull tells a violent story

By Laura Baisas

Artist illustration of Archaeopteryx

Weird bird mouths go all the way back to the first avian dinosaur

a man hold a dinosaur footprint in a lab

Teen discovers Australia’s oldest dinosaur fossil—almost 70 years ago

By Laura Baisas

Illustration of sailbacked dinosaur vomiting stomach contents

Oldest fossilized dinosaur vomit discovered in Germany

an illustration of a large shark holding a flag of the state of maryland.

Megalodon could become Maryland’s official state shark

By Laura Baisas

Paleontologists excavating sandstone encased dinosaur fossils from parking lot dig site

Dinosaur bones found underneath parking lot in Dinosaur, Colorado

The skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus rex is seen in the Dinosaur Gallery of the Royal Belgium Institute of Natural Sciences in Brussels, Belgium.

Tyrannosaurus rex took 40 years to reach full size

By Margherita Bassi

Left lateral view of catalog number USNM PAL 803273, a Pachycephalosaurus skull, from the Late Cretaceous Period, Maastrichtian stage (approximately 68 to 66 million years ago), Hell Creek Formation, Perkins County, South Dakota. The skull is largely complete with missing areas restored, while the lower jaw - not photographed - is reconstructed. This specimen is from the Department of Paleobiology collections at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History. Catalog record EZID: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3a8ba3bb9-dcf1-437e-ba8c-d627cbdfaf3c

A ‘spectacular’ dinosaur dome heads for the Smithsonian

Mosasaur eating prey in water with dinosaurs behind it

Mosasaurs may have terrorized rivers as well as oceans

Close-up of the mass of rocks in the throat of Chromeornis (the rocks are the gray mass just to the left of the neck bones).

Why did this ancient bird die with tiny rocks in its throat?

A close-up film still of a fictional dinosaur, the Dilophosaurus, from Jurassic Park, aggressively facing the camera with its mouth open, showcasing its sharp teeth and a large, vibrantly colored frill flared around its head. The scene is dark and misty.

Were there any venomous dinosaurs?

By Andrew Coletti

a large geode with purple and white gems

A 1,000-pound geode, mosasaur skeleton, and head to auction

By Popular Science Team

Legume leaf fossil

Without dinosaurs, there’d be no Thanksgiving dinner

Illustration of a pack of Nanotyrannus brazenly attacking a juvenile T. rex

This tiny T. rex is actually a new species

Mummy of the juvenile duck-billed dinosaur Edmontosaurus annectens with fossil preparator Tyler Keillor of the University of Chicago. The dinosaur mummy nicknamed “Ed Jr.,” was covered by floodwaters some 66 million years ago, preserving its fossilized skeleton and, in a thin clay layer, large areas of scaly, wrinkled skin and a tall fleshy crest over its back.

Dinosaur ‘mummies’ prove some dinos had hooves

an illustration of a marine reptile swimming amongst fish

Jurassic ‘sword dragon’ uncovered in England

By Laura Baisas

a tyrannosaur skeleton on display in a musuem

Amateur paleontologist opens fossil museum in rural Minnesota

By Sara Kiley Watson

Illustration of Joaquinraptor dinosaur with crocodile leg in its mouth

2,000-pound megaraptor died while snacking on a crocodile