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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!

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?

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Dinosaurs Fossil Friday

Fossil Friday: A Mummified Thescelosaurus & the Day the Dinosaurs Died

Does this mummified dinosaur leg capture the day the dinosaurs went extinct?

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Dino Docs!

65 Thoughts About 65, Adam Driver’s Sci-fi Dinosaur Film

Are those real dinosaurs? Why is there a Triassic reptile in the Late Cretaceous? Was 65 really the best title??