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Why Did Plant-Eating Dinosaurs Need Such Massive Bodies Just To Eat Leaves?
Brachiosaurus, Diplodocus, Argentinosaurus—they weren’t terrifying meat-eaters. They were leaf-lovers. So why were they so […] ...
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New research challenges animal dietary classifications in Yellowstone National Park
A federally funded analysis led by Brown University biologists found that different species of large herbivores have diets that are more diverse and complex than previously known.
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“Incredible Luck”: How Paleontologists Found a Dinosaur Fossil Under the Denver Museum of Nature and Science
We won the dinosaur lottery,” says curator James Hagadorn, who helped ID the 67.5-million-year-old bit of bone.
Denver science museum finds dinosaur fossil under its parking lot
The fossil, estimated to be about 70 million years old, was buried 763 feet below the surface and unearthed because of a ...
Jurassic Park-ing lot: Dino fossil turns Denver museum into dig site
A dinosaur fossil was found nearly 800 feet below a parking lot at a Denver museum that houses fossils of the extinct species.
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Giant Sloths and Many Other Massive Creatures Were Once Common on Our Planet. With Environmental Changes, Such Giants Could Thrive Again
The largest sloth of all time was the size of an elephant. Known to paleontologists as Eremotherium, the shaggy giant ...
70 million-year-old dinosaur fossil discovered under Denver Museum of Nature and Science
A new dinosaur fossil at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science was found buried hundreds of feet under the facility's parking ...