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dinosaur

[dahy-nuh-sawr] / ˈdaɪ nəˌsɔr /




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Standouts for your weekend watch list: If you’re going to the movies this weekend, check out Anne Hathaway’s new dinosaur film, The End of Oak Street.

From Slate Aug. 14, 2026

A rare looping trail of fossilized footprints in Colorado is giving scientists a detailed look at how a giant dinosaur moved 150 million years ago.

From Science Daily Aug. 11, 2026

Soon after birds first appeared during the Early Cretaceous, they evolved body sizes much smaller than those achieved by any other dinosaur group.

From Science Daily Aug. 9, 2026

That result suggests that dinosaur size was not controlled by physiology alone.

From Science Daily Aug. 9, 2026

My eyes grow wide as I imagine Ma having to face the most ferocious dinosaur of all.

From "Dragons in a Bag" by Zetta Elliott

Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor star in this charmingly silly film about a suburban family suddenly faced with dinosaurs.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 2026

What if your corner of town were to drop unexpectedly through a kind of sudden-onset time warp and slip back into the age of dinosaurs?

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 2026

In the 1950s, Miller began making figurines — often of dinosaurs and space aliens — using plastic injection molding.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 10, 2026

Those same factors, however, cannot explain why even the smallest dinosaurs other than birds remained relatively large.

From Science Daily Aug. 9, 2026

If the dinosaurs had worn these goggles, and the Earth had been bombarded by mile-wide asteroid boulders, the dinosaurs would still have died, but their goggles would be intact.

From "Tangerine" by Edward Bloor




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