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A herd of Triceratops horridus walks in a swamp during the Cretaceous period. Credit Bart Boss

Spielberg was right: triceratops lived together (video)

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A decade-long study shows that five three-horned dinosaurs lived - and died - together, similar to their depiction in Steven Spielberg's Jurassic World
Webb Space Telescope imaging. Photo: NASA

Webb Space Telescope: Seeing far. is very!

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These days, the Webb Space Telescope is expected to take the place of the Hubble Telescope after more than 30 years of operation. How far in space and time (!) can the web reach? What does he see that the human eye is unable to perceive? And how could he help us discover the secrets of the creation of the universe?
Doomsday of the dinosaurs. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Last Spring of the Dinosaurs: Groundbreaking Study Pinpoints the Season of the Chicxulub Asteroid Collision

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Groundbreaking research confirms the time of year when an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs and 75% of life on Earth
An infographic illustrating the geological periods and the major extinctions in between. Illustration: shutterstock

Assessment: Huge emissions of C02 from volcanic activity caused a mass extinction of species about 200 million years ago

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A plant-eating dinosaur. Illustration: shutterstock

Dinosaurs were warm blooded

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The extinction of the dinosaurs. Illustration: shutterstock

The dinosaurs thrived before the asteroid hit wiped them out

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Archeopteryx from the Jurassic period. Now the creature that preceded it has been found - which had features of reptiles and birds at the same time. Illustration: shutterstock

A new species of the 'missing link' between dinosaurs and birds has been discovered

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Flying dinosaurs. Illustration: shutterstock

The asteroid wiped out almost all the birds along with the dinosaurs

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The fall of the asteroid and the extinction of the dinosaurs. Illustration: shutterstock

Why did the dinosaurs become extinct?

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An illustration of a Yumac from the Otrichonodont series, which became extinct about 70 million years ago. Source: Oscar Sanisidro, Wikimedia.

Research: Mammals switched to daytime activity immediately after the extinction of the dinosaurs

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Simulation of the feathered dinosaur Zhenyuanlong. Image: Emily Willoughby/Wikimedia.

How dinosaurs became birds

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Yutyrannus huali - a feathered dinosaur discovered in China in 2012 and two individuals of smaller feathered dinosaurs Beipiaosaurus. Illustration: Dr. Brian Cho

Debunking six myths about dinosaurs

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Dr Nick Longrich from the Milner Center for the Study of Evolution. Photo: Anthony Prothero, University of Bath

The mammals almost went extinct with the dinosaurs

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The celestial body that wiped out the dinosaurs. Illustration: shutterstock

What killed the dinosaurs?

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Image: A toothless chicken may have been the ancestor of modern birds. Illustration: Danielle Dufault

The birds survived the extinction of their dinosaur relatives thanks to the ability to eat seeds

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A Coranan dinosaur, lived in the continent of "Eastern North America" ​​which was isolated from the West by a sea that cut America in two. Image: University of Bath

A horned dinosaur fossil has been discovered, confirming the theory that during the Cretaceous period a sea separated eastern North America from the western coast

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Close-up of potential red blood cells within a fossil deployed using a focused ion beam. Photo: Imperial College

Researchers in the UK: we discovered soft tissue fossils of dinosaurs

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Three-dimensional reconstruction of the skull of Carnufex carolinensis. Courtesy of the University of North Carolina

The crocodiles' ancestors were super carnivores even before the dinosaurs moved north

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Pterosaurs. Illustration: shutterstock

Dinosaur technology / I Snead

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Rhinorex condrupus, the dreosaur recently discovered and restored in 2014, had a prominent nose. Illustration - Julius Xutoni.

A dinosaur with a big nose

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Ichthyosaurs from the Jurassic period. Illustration: shutterstock

Marie Anning - the best dinosaur museum in history

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A dinosaur of a new species was 10 meters long and weighed 4-5 tons. Photo: Christopher Hendricks, CC-BY

A new dinosaur has been discovered in Portugal, the largest terrestrial predator that lived in Europe during the Jurassic period

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Tyrannosaurus. Illustration: shutterstock

The first dinosaurs discovered in Saudi Arabia

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Surinamese cockroach. Photo: shutterstock

Cockroaches instead of dung beetles (or vice versa)

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Dr. Mark Levin of the University of Utah next to the reconstruction of the dinosaur Lythronax argestes at the Museum of Natural History in Salt Lake City

A giant carnivorous dinosaur discovered in the USA may be one of the ancestors of the T-Rex

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