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dinosaur

[dahy-nuh-sawr] / ˈdaɪ nəˌsɔr /




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A dinosaur trackway made up of 200 footprints which were made 166 million years ago is the largest of its kind uncovered in the world, researchers have said.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

And the careful, steadily reported, once-a-week format may seem like a dinosaur in this hyper-paced timeline where deluges of information accost us every ticking second.

From Slate • Jun. 5, 2026

But don’t get it twisted: there’s only one tiny dinosaur Cervantes looks to when he feels the heat, or for a lift when he falls.

From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026

Researchers classified the dinosaur as an unenlagiid, a group of small to medium sized theropod dinosaurs known from Late Cretaceous rocks in South America, Antarctica, Australia, and Madagascar.

From Science Daily • May 29, 2026

From what little is known now, it is thought to have belonged to a hadrosaur, a large duck-billed dinosaur.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson




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