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Prognathodon cipactli,' a sea monster from the age of the dinosaurs discovered in Mexico

Prognathodon cipactli, a six-meter-long mosasaur, was a superpredator in the late Cretaceous seas of northeastern Mexico.
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9 months ago
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A dinosaur's last supper: Gut of a 100-million-year-old sauropod sheds light on its diet

The first direct evidence of sauropod diet was found, confirming their herbivorous nature with cololite evidence.
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A dinosaur's last supper: Gut of a 100-million-year-old sauropod sheds light on its diet

The first direct evidence of sauropod diet was found, confirming their herbivorous nature with cololite evidence.
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A chicken-sized dinosaur related to T. rex debunks the hypothesis that its lineage shrank

A complete skeleton of Alnashetri cerropoliciensis, one of the smallest nonavian theropods ever recorded, was discovered in Argentina and published in Nature, revealing a chicken-sized carnivorous dinosaur from 95 million years ago.
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Newly discovered dinosaur species was a fish-eater with a huge horn

Spinosaurus mirabilis was a school-bus-length, fish-eating spinosaur with a foot-long curved horn that lived in Cretaceous marshes about 95 million years ago.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
8 months ago

Denver museum known for dinosaur displays finds fossil under its parking lot

A Denver museum discovered a dinosaur bone fossil beneath its parking lot while drilling for geothermal studies.
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