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A second asteroid may have struck Earth when the dinosaurs died out

A possible impact crater under the sea off West Africa might have been made by a smaller piece that broke off the asteroid that wiped out most dinosaurs

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Skull and life reconstruction of Tyrannosaurus rex with original eye socket and eye (left) and hypothetical reconstruction with circular eye socket and enlarged eye (right).

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T. rex’s unusual eye sockets helped it evolve a powerful bite

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Illustration of Tyrannosaurus rex in the jungle

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Controversial idea that T. rex was three species comes under fire

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An artist illustration of Meraxes

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Meraxes gigas was a huge dinosaur with tiny arms like T. rex

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An image of a feathered theropod dinosaur eating a mammal on a cold day

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Dinosaurs’ ability to survive icy cold helped them dominate the planet

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How Prehistoric Planet created scientifically accurate dinosaurs

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How Prehistoric Planet created scientifically accurate dinosaurs

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Psittacosaurus dinosaur fossil

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Some dinosaurs may have had the reptile version of a belly button

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Prehistoric Planet

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Prehistoric Planet review: David Attenborough’s dinosaur magic

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Tupandactylus full size ? Nicholls 2022: artist's reconstruction of the pterosaur.

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Pterosaur fossil suggests feathers may have evolved long before flight

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David Attenborough

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Dinosaurs: The Final Day with David Attenborough review

David Attenborough joins palaeontologist Robert DePalma at the Tanis site in North Dakota as he unearths the story of the dinosaurs’ death in this thrilling documentary

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There are things we will never know about dinosaurs – here's why

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Strange sauropod dinosaurs had sails on top of their long necks

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A triceratops called Big John seems to have been stabbed in the head

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Long-necked sauropod dinosaurs had unusual way of walking

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