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Introduction: Dinosaurs
Dinosaurs grip people's imaginations like no other extinct creature. Start finding out why in our beginner's guide to the "fearfully great lizards"
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Soft-centred fossils reveal dinosaurs' true colours
10:10 27 January 2011 | 2 comments
Newly discovered traces of soft tissue provide unprecedented insights into how animals that died millions of years ago looked and lived. Jeff Hecht reports
Did pterosaurs fly out of their eggs?
19:00 20 January 2011
A spectacular fossil apparently of a pterosaur and its egg provides some clues about the flying reptiles' mode of reproduction
New dinosaur adds to the mystery of Triassic Park
19:00 13 January 2011
The Triassic dinosaurs of Argentina were more diverse and abundant than we thought – so why did they take 30 million years to rise to dominance?
Living dinosaurs: Was archaeopteryx really a bird?
17:07 15 December 2010
It had the wings and feathers of a bird, but the teeth, legs and claws of a dinosaur – so just what kind of beast was archaeopteryx?
T. rex was a cannibal
22:00 15 October 2010
Whether T. Rex were fearsome predators or cowardly scavengers is hotly disputed. Now it seems the legendary dinosaurs were cannibals
INSIDE SCIENCE
Mass extinctions
Five times in the past, the global ecosystem collapsed and most of the life forms on the planet suddenly went extinct. Today the world may well be in the middle of the sixth mass extinction
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Meet the oldest dino ancestor yet
10:00 09 October 2010
Footprints left by a dinosaur ancestor show the animals were around earlier than previously thought
Cosmic accidents: Killer asteroid with a silver lining
18:30 01 October 2010
A 10-kilometre-wide rock did for the dinosaurs, but smashed open a window of opportunity for unimpressive little animals called mammals
Time to rebrand the stegosaur?
12:23 24 September 2010 | 1 comment
Like brontosaurs before it, Stegosaurus could be about to lose its iconic name
Meet Kosmoceratops, the horniest vegetarian dinosaur
12:08 23 September 2010
Supersized head and multiple horns are order of the day for "lost continent" dinosaurs
Dinosaur with a mysterious fin found
10:58 09 September 2010
A two-legged dinosaur that had a fin on its back has been discovered – but nobody knows what it was for
SPECIAL FEATURE
The golden age of dinosaurs
If you wanted a phrase to sum up the mood among dinosaur researchers, you could do a lot worse than these three simple words: "Anything is possible"