Left: A new fossil of an embryonic adult oviraptorid dinosaur. Right: Artist’s interpretation of Malana v Viraptorid.Image: Fossil: Shundong bi; Artwork: Zhao Chuang Paleontologists in China have found the remains of Oviraptorus ur sitting on egg structures. By itself it is a surprising and rare discovery, but this fossil is …
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From the depths of time, from the Hell Creek Formation, the last of the hook-handed dinosaurs emerged: Captain Hook … from the Prairie. This fearsome creature had a snout full of teeth and large, viciously hooked claws. But each claw sat at the end of the most ridiculously short, stubby …
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On the last day of the Cretaceous period, a 7.5-mile-wide asteroid smashed into the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico and changed the arc of life on Earth. Sixty-six million years later, scientists have used supercomputers to recreate the devastation of that infamous impact in unprecedented detail. The models are helping to …
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