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Understanding how gold forms is crucial for knowing where to find it and how to extract it sustainably. McGill researchers have answered a long-standing question in geology that could lead to new ore discoveries. Researchers traveled to...
Earth system models (ESMs) help us understand climate and environmental changes. With advances in computing power, ESMs can now be run at kilometer-scale (k-scale) resolutions, capturing very fine details to better predict extreme weather and understand...

Early dinosaurs grew up fast, but fossil analysis suggests they weren’t the only ones

The earliest dinosaurs had rapid growth rates, but so did many of the other animals living alongside them, according to a study published in...

Research shows that five three-horned dinosaurs lived, and died, together

A team from Naturalis Biodiversity Center in the Netherlands was looking for a Tyrannosaurus in the summer of 2013 in Wyoming. Instead, they found...

The hidden rule for flight feathers and how it could reveal which dinosaurs could fly

Birds can fly—at least, most of them can. Flightless birds like penguins and ostriches have evolved lifestyles that don't require flight. However, there's a...

Dinosaurs’ success helped by specialized stance and gait, study finds

Dinosaurs' range of locomotion made them incredibly adaptable, University of Bristol researchers have found. In a new study, published today in Royal Society Open...

Dinosaurs might have used feathers on forelimbs and tails to flush and pursue their prey, say biologists

What are the origins of wings and tails in birds? This is one of the key questions in the evolution of animals. It has...

More than a meteorite: New clues about the demise of dinosaurs

What wiped out the dinosaurs? A meteorite plummeting to Earth is only part of the story, a new study suggests. Climate change triggered by...

New South American site reveals extraordinary fossils from the end of the age of the dinosaurs

The discovery of a spectacular fossil site in Argentina is helping shed new light on life at the end of the Cretaceous, the time...

Fossils show widespread plant extinctions after asteroid wiped out dinosaurs

Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid the size of San Francisco crashed into a shallow sea off the coast of modern-day Mexico and plunged...

An asteroid killed the dinosaurs, allowing mammals to dominate Earth, but why?

Almost 66 million years ago, an asteroid struck the Earth, killing all non-avian dinosaurs and allowing mammals to dominate. But just how did we evolve...

265-million-year-old fossil reveals oldest, largest predator in South America, long before the rise of dinosaurs

Dinosaurs have quite the reputation for being the largest, fiercest predators in life's history. Yet, 40 million years before dinosaurs ruled, Pampaphoneus biccai dominated...

What was the largest dinosaurs?

Introduction Dinosaurs were some of the largest creatures to ever roam the earth. These prehistoric giants come in a variety of shapes and sizes, from...

Dinosaurs survived when CO2 was extremely high. Why can’t humans?

How did plants and animals survive around 200 million years ago when the carbon dioxide concentration went up to 6,000 parts per million? Paul...

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