dinosaur
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It was found on the same beach where Ireland's only dinosaur bones were discovered in the late 19th Century and the 1980s.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
A dinosaur statue stands guard outside a temple, a hint at the ancient giants buried deep in the earth below making up northeastern Thailand's "dinosaur rush".
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
The symbol for that facility, 404 Media reported, was a sharp-toothed green dinosaur holding an open book.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
"For reference, these soft tissues are more than 200 million years older than the oldest dinosaur."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026
The huge dinosaur couldn’t cross the river with them—it would be too conspicuous to ride around Brooklyn—and there was no way to go back into that nightmare.
From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older
"Our local dinosaurs are like missing jigsaw pieces that help establish evolutionary connections, particularly around the Jurassic and Cretaceous period transition, approximately 140 million years ago."
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
Under his own studio, he became best known for the dinosaurs in Steven Spielberg’s “Jurassic Park,” using computer generation to animate the prehistoric creatures.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026
More than 450 million years ago, long before dinosaurs appeared and before animals or plants had spread widely across dry land, crinoids were already thriving in some of Earth's earliest coral reefs.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026
Perhaps, in an ironic twist of fate, the truly original summertime creature feature went extinct before the onscreen dinosaurs could.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
Sometimes a wishing star turns out to be just a lump of rock that crashes into a planet and kills all the dinosaurs.
From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman
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