PALEONTOLOGY

Big John, world’s largest Triceratops, got mauled by a rival dinosaur

"The impact probably came from behind." A violent encounter with a rival dinosaur may explain why Big John, the most massive Triceratops skeleton ever found,...

Dinosaur leg might be from the day the asteroid struck, scientists claim

An immaculately preserved dinosaur leg uncovered in North Dakota may be a relic from the day a massive asteroid slammed into Earth, bringing the age...

100-year-old Greenland shark that washed up on UK beach had brain infection, autopsy finds

The super-rare Greenland shark that washed ashore in England last month had a brain infection when it died, according to an animal autopsy of...

Periodic volcanism may have triggered multiple Jurassic extinctions

Severe environmental crises led to a series of large-scale extinction events in the Jurassic period 178-186 million years (myr) ago. The turmoil has been...

Dinosaurs ‘already in decline’ before asteroid apocalypse

Dinosaurs were already in an evolutionary decline tens of millions of years before the meteorite impact that finally finished them off, new research has...

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