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Here's how Tyrannosaurus ended up with a big head and small arms
50+ min ago (526+ words) Tyrannosaurus rex possessed a preposterously massive skull " 5 feet long (1. 5 meters) and built to enable bone-crunching bite force " but presented preposterously puny arms. And many other meat-eating dinosaurs shared this mismatched combination of traits. So how did this come to be?...
Large shinbone found in New Mexico belongs to close kin of T. rex
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (506+ words) An artist's impression of a giant tyrannosaur, with duckbilled dinosaur Parasaurolophus individuals in the background in New Mexico about 74 million years ago, in this undated illustration. Chase Stone/via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. MANDATORY…...
Study finds Tyrannosaurus rex did not reach full size until age 40
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (498+ words) WASHINGTON " There is no question that Tyrannosaurus rex got big. In fact, this fearsome dinosaur may have been Earth's most massive land predator of all time. But the question of how quickly T. rex achieved its maximum size has been a…...
One of the largest fossil collections fights off extinction
5+ mon, 4+ day ago (756+ words) ITHACA, N. Y. " At the Museum of the Earth in Ithaca, New York, visitors wander through extinct ecosystems that start at the dawn of complex life on Earth and then run to the steppes of ice age mastodons. But the museum now…...
One of the largest fossil collections fights off extinction - Hawaii Tribune-Herald
5+ mon, 4+ day ago (805+ words) The Carboniferous to Triassic Theater at the Museum of the Earth in Ithaca, N. Y. , on Dec. 17, 2025. A funding crisis at the Museum of the Earth and the Paleontological Research Institution in Ithaca, N. Y. , could scatter priceless specimens and end nearly a century…...
Does your backyard need a stegosaurus?
7+ mon, 4+ week ago (961+ words) Guy Gsell, owner of Field Station: Dinosaurs outdoor theme park in Leonia, N. J. , stands with one of the animatronic dinosaurs on Sept. 28, 2025. Thirty-one animatronic dinosaurs on display at the theme park " including some that growl and roar " are for sale. (Lanna…...
Megaraptor had giant claws and an appetite for crocodilians
8+ mon, 5+ day ago (525+ words) In an undated image provided by Matt Lamanna, the thumb claw of Laguna Palacios, a megaraptorid. A fossil of the 23-foot-tall predator could help unlock secrets of an order of dinosaurs that remain poorly understood. (Matt Lamanna via The New…...