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New Study Sheds Light on Dining Habits of Jurassic Carnivorous Dinosaurs | Sci.News
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Life's Building Blocks Found on Dwarf Planet Ceres | Space
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| | The dwarf planet Ceres keeps looking better and better as a possible home for alien life.
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Nanotyrannus isn't a 'mini T. Rex' after all - it's a new species, 'dueling dinosaurs' fossil reveals | Live Science
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| | An argument over whether fossils from several small dinosaurs represent a juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex or smaller adults of a separate species may finally be settled.
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New paper: theropod bite marks on Morrison sauropod bones | Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week
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| | New paper out today in PeerJ: Lei R, Tschopp E, Hendrickx C, Wedel MJ, Norell M, Hone DWE. 2023. Bite and tooth marks on sauropod dinosaurs from the Morrison Formation. PeerJ 11:e16327 http://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16327 This one had a long gestation. The earliest trace I can find of it in my Gmail archive is this bit...
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Review: Dougal Dixon's The New Dinosaurs, 2025 edition | Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week
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| Let's start with the information you need most: Dougal Dixon's speculative evolution classic The New Dinosaurs, which imagines the biota of today if the K-Pg extinction event had never happened, is being reprinted in a handsomely-produced new edition from Breakdown Press. Here's the website, open for pre-orders (link); the book ships on August 11. Do...