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
Researchers are also studying fossilized amber, dinosaur scales and bones from other dinosaurs.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026
Together, these fossils suggest that the ancient coastal environments of the region supported complex and highly diverse dinosaur ecosystems.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
The discovery also adds new information about the remarkable dinosaur diversity of eastern Iberia during the Late Jurassic.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
My mind was a couple of hours ahead on the dinosaur poop gag we were about to play on the scientists’ office at the strip mall.
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
About a decade ago, Renne used argon-argon dating to establish precise ages for a meteor impact, major volcanic eruptions in India and the extinction of the dinosaurs.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 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
New analysis techniques developed in recent years have provided strong evidence that theropods like T. rex, velociraptors and other two-legged dinosaurs were endothermic animals like mammals and birds, rather than cold-blooded, or exothermic, like reptiles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
"Some of these diving birds' feathers seem to have been modern-looking and waterproof, but they also had some smaller, fuzzy, primitive body feathers that we associate with dinosaurs and enantiornithines," says O'Connor.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 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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