Extinct species news, features and articles
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T. rex relatives 'moonwalked' to attract mates, newfound dinosaur ‘mating arena' suggestsResearchers have identified a "mating arena" at Dinosaur Ridge where male theropods gathered during the Cretaceous period to display in front of females.
By Patrick Pester Published
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Bite marks reveal giant terror birds were potentially prey for another apex predator — humongous caimanResearchers have found evidence of a titanic tussle between a terror bird and a large caiman in Colombia's ancient La Venta wetlands.
By Patrick Pester Published
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Why giant moa — a bird that once towered over humans — are even harder to de-extinct than dire wolvesColossal Biosciences has announced a partnership to resurrect giant flightless birds called moa. But the company's recent dire wolf project was controversial, and moa are an even more ambitious target for de-extinction.
By Patrick Pester Published
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'Beautifully preserved' ice age horse skull unearthed in Yukon mineNew pictures taken in Yukon, Canada, show a perfectly preserved fossil skull, which experts say belonged to a male, teenage horse that lived during the last ice age.
By Sascha Pare Published
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'We're bringing back avian dinosaurs': De-extinction company claims it will resurrect the giant moa in next 10 yearsThe South Island giant moa could be the next species that biotech company Colossal Biosciences "brings back" from extinction — but experts say the result will not and "cannot be" a moa.
By Sascha Pare Published
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'Ash-winged dawn goddess' is oldest pterosaur ever discovered in North America — and it was small enough to sit 'on your shoulder'A cache of Triassic fossils in Arizona has revealed Eotephradactylus mcintireae, or "ash-winged dawn goddess," the oldest pterosaur ever discovered in North America.
By Patrick Pester Published
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'It's how I would imagine I would react if I saw a real-life giant dinosaur': What Jurassic World Rebirth's scientific advisor thinks of the movieINTERVIEW The summer blockbuster Jurassic World Rebirth is hitting theaters, so Live Science asked paleontologist Steve Brusatte what it's like being the movie's scientific advisor.
By Hannah Osborne Published
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Mysterious 'runner' dinosaur a sign there are more Jurassic secrets to unlock beneath western USThe discovery of Enigmacursor mollyborthwickae, a dog-size "runner" dinosaur, has left researchers re-evaluating Nanosaurus and several other US dinosaurs from the Morrison Formation in Colorado.
By Patrick Pester Published
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'Statistically, that shouldn’t have happened': Something very weird occurred in the ocean after the dinosaur-killing asteroid hitNot everything dies in a mass extinction. Sea life recovered in different and surprising ways after the asteroid strike 66 million years ago. Ancient fossils recorded it all.
By Stewart Edie Published
