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The Top Ten Dinosaur Discoveries of 2024
From the realization that paleontologists still haven’t found the biggest dinosaurs to the unearthing of a small burrowing ...
Gizmodo spoke with David Hone, author of a new book exploring how paleontologists study dinosaurs—and why it’s time to rethink the rules.
Did the World's Best-Preserved Dinosaurs Really Die in 'Pompeii-Type' Events? Nov. 4, 2024 — Extraordinarily well preserved fossils of feathered dinosaurs and other creatures got that way after ...
Did a collision with a giant asteroid or comet ... According to scientists who maintain that dinosaur extinction came quickly, the impact must have spelled the cataclysmic end.
While volcanism caused a temporary cold period, the effects had already worn off thousands of years before the meteorite, the ultimate cause of the dinosaur extinction event, impacted.