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Amazing fossil hints mammals hunted dinosaurs three times their size

A small mammal from the Cretaceous Period appears to have been preserved by volcanic debris while attacking a dinosaur three times its size

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Prehistoric Planet 2 review: Attenborough returns to ancient Earth

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Prehistoric Planet 2 review: Attenborough returns to ancient Earth

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Amber fragment with feather portions and beetle larval moults

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Amber fossils reveal dinosaurs and beetles had symbiotic relationship

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A Tyrannosaurus rex eats a juvenile Edmontosaurus

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T. rex’s terrifying teeth would have been hidden behind scaly lips

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Longest dinosaur neck on record was six times longer than a giraffe's

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Longest dinosaur neck on record was six times longer than a giraffe's

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Fossil dinosaur egg

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Treasure trove of fossil eggs hints titanosaurs nested in colonies

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Illustration of a group of ichthyosaurs

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Ichthyosaurs used a barren region of the ocean as an ancient nursery

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Dinosaur apocalypse

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Diversity helped mammals survive asteroid that killed the dinosaurs

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Zuul crurivastator in battle - credit Henry Sharpe

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Rare fossil reveals 'destroyer of shins' dinosaurs fought each other

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How did so many giant meat-eating dinosaurs co-exist in the Jurassic?

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How did so many giant meat-eating dinosaurs co-exist in the Jurassic?

It took a lot of meat to feed even one species of large carnivorous dinosaur, so how did several survive side-by-side in the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods without starving? We might finally have the answer

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Newly discovered dinosaur has a streamlined body like a diving bird

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Mummified dinosaur has bite marks and gashes in its skin

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Two-legged dinosaur from Zimbabwe is the oldest ever found in Africa

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Colombian dinosaur finally identified thanks to 2016 peace agreement

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