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Dinosaurs The Mesozoic Mailbag

The Pipe Dream of Nanotyrannus Reaches New Heights: Comments on Longrich & Saitta 2024

The dream of a second Tyrannosaur genus at the end-Cretaceous of North America receives new validation, but ultimately does little to change the great Nanotyrannus debate.

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Dinosaurs

The Lost World of Appalachia: Why are There so Few Dinosaurs in Eastern North America?

Western North America has long been a goldmine for dinosaur fossils. Eastern North America? Not so much. But why is this a case? And have paleontologists finally started to correct the issue?

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Museums!

An Update to the Royal Ontario Museum’s Fossil Gallery?

Something big is coming to Toronto’s foremost natural history museum…

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Aquatic Life Carboniferous

What was the Tully Monster?

There’s no animal alive today like the Tully Monster, which has created a massive problem for paleontologists.

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Museums!

The Canadian Museum of Nature: Canada’s Natural History Come to Life

A review of Ottawa’s Canadian Museum of Nature and its prehistoric exhibits.

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Dinosaurs

Was Edmontosaurus a Comb-Crested or Flat-Headed Hadrosaur?

Did the late Cretaceous Hadrosaur Edmontosaurus sport a fleshy crest atop its skull?

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Dinosaurs Weird Dinosaurs

Brachytrachelopan & The Evolution of Small-Necked Sauropods

Why did some sauropods evolve such tiny necks?

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Dinosaurs Species Spotlight Weird Dinosaurs

Meet Deinocheirus, Mongolia’s Bizarre Dino-Duck

In the annals of prehistory, few dinosaurs are as strange as the giant Ornithomimosaur Deinocheirus.

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Aquatic Life Mammals

Meet Perucetus & Tutcetus, The Two Extremes of Whale Evolution

Within a week, one of the largest and smallest prehistoric whales have emerged from across the world.

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Dinosaurs Weird Dinosaurs

The Mystery of Megaraptor & the Megaraptorans

Were these giant-clawed predators true raptors, or something else entirely?