dinosaur
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Photorealistic renderings of shrimp that resemble life preservers and chicken parts with the texture of dinosaur skin have elicited disgust and nausea, with an undercurrent of existential, eldritch horror.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
A fractured rib from Scotty, the largest Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton ever discovered, is giving researchers a rare look at dinosaur biology from 66 million years ago.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026
Yet even under those generally warmer conditions, winters in ancient Alaska would have been extremely challenging for a cold-blooded dinosaur.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
It also provides evidence of periods when dinosaur populations and other animals could move between the two continents.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
“This is only my school while the dig goes on. The minute my mom runs out of dinosaur bones to catalog, I’m history.”
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
Those measurements bolstered the idea that the asteroid impact intensified volcanic activity, creating a one-two punch that contributed to the extinction of all non-avian dinosaurs.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026
Researchers are also studying fossilized amber, dinosaur scales and bones from other dinosaurs.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026
Its frequent appearances in museum exhibitions and audiovisual productions about dinosaurs have also helped make it one of the best-known "terrible lizards" among the general public.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
Those displays helped turn Diplodocus into an international symbol of paleontology and one of the most familiar dinosaurs in popular culture.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
They are the largest animals* ever to evolve on the planet Earth, larger by far than the dinosaurs.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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Tyrannosaurus Lex(icon)
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