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dinosaur

[dahy-nuh-sawr] / ˈdaɪ nəˌsɔr /




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The largely rural region is historically among the poorest in Thailand, but the discoveries are a boon to a fledgling dinosaur tourism industry in a country better known for its beaches and food.

From Barron's Sep. 3, 2026

Among the key specimens on display is a miniature model of a Crystal Palace dinosaur, alongside other objects that show how early scientists and artists understood the prehistoric world.

From BBC Aug. 22, 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 kit had had a Swiss Army knife, but Jack broke it performing an emergency tracheotomy on the dinosaur rock at the park.

From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu

"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

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

At the time the conventional wisdom about the dinosaur extinction was the same as it had been in Charles Lyell’s day a century earlier–namely that the dinosaurs had died out over millions of years.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson




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