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The wing of the bird-like feathered dinosaur Anchiornis is pictured under laser-stimulated fluorescence in this handout photo

Feathered Dinosaur From a Time Before Archaeopteryx Found Using New Technique

Will Dunham 01/03/2017

A technique using high-powered lasers to reveal hidden soft...

Credit: Ita Mehrotra

A Brief History of Earth: The Rock From Space That Wiped Out the Dinosaurs – and Much Else

Sandhya Ramesh 06/02/2017

The asteroid chunk was nearly 15 km in diameter...

Feathered Dinosaur Tail Found Preserved in Chunk of Amber

Will Dunham 09/12/2016

Scientists suspect the tail belonged to a type of...

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A Brief History of Earth: The Birds, the Bees and Other Triassic Treats

Sandhya Ramesh 30/10/2016

The last known supercontinent had broken up to yield...

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A Brief History of Earth: The Triassic, a Time for New Beginnings and a Few Endings

Sandhya Ramesh 28/09/2016

In the Triassic period, life slowly bloomed into some...

Paleontologist Sebastian Apesteguia points to a dinosaur's footprint in Chulku Mayu, in the syncline of Maragua, some 60 km of Sucre, Bolivia, July 21, 2016. Reuters/Files

Meter-Wide Dinosaur Print Found in Bolivia

Reuters 27/07/2016

One of the largest ever dinosaur footprints has been...

Heads Up: Intact Skull Sheds Light on Big, Long-Necked Dinosaurs

Will Dunham 27/04/2016

CT scans of the skull revealed its (Sarmientosaurus') brain...