Paleontology
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The hermit who found the dino ‘monsters’ of Patagonia
A new species offers a clue to the boom of giant dinosaurs
60-foot octopus may have been the ‘kraken’ of the Cretaceous
Scientists have found the world's oldest dogs
This odd-looking new Spinosaurus is reviving an age-old debate
What the archaeologists of the future will discover about us
A dino debate goes extinct
Is this really the world’s most dangerous bird?
Inside the bone-crushing mating rituals of dinosaurs
The biggest scientific breakthroughs of the last 25 years
How dinosaur vomit has solved these prehistoric mysteries
What 60 decomposing lizards can tell us about dinosaur death
World’s oldest RNA found in woolly mammoth
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