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
Researchers have found a trove of dinosaur fossils across the region, which holds the country's richest deposits, offering insight into the creatures that roamed the planet millions of years ago.
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
A feathered dinosaur with a beak that could snap my head off with a single bite.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
"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
The musicians who supplanted the East Village folkies were by that time dinosaurs themselves, having been rendered extinct by pop permutations several times over.
From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2026
The preserved tissues date back more than 450 million years, making them far older than the earliest dinosaurs.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026
Perhaps the smart bipedal dinosaurs, or the raccoons, or the otters, or the squid.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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