dinosaur
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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
Once birds could fly, they gained access to habitats and ways of life that were unavailable to their terrestrial dinosaur relatives.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026
"Everyone loves a giant dinosaur," said study co-author Roger Benson, the Macaulay Curator of Dinosaur Paleobiology at the Museum.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026
Those twisted dendritic legs get stuck in the pitch, and the stuff begins to pull me down like I’m a dinosaur in tar.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
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
They and the other dinosaurs — a T. rex, an armored ankylosaurus, a sight-gag-worthy giant snake — adapt to the 20th century as comfortably as coyotes, skulking through backyards in search of prey.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
The region’s rocks preserve fossils from different stages in the evolution of terrestrial vertebrates, including some of the oldest known dinosaurs and large predators that lived before the Age of Dinosaurs.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026
No one knows what wiped out the dinosaurs.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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Tyrannosaurus Lex(icon)
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Paleontology: Dinosaurs - Introductory
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