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The quarry wall strewn with hundreds of bones representing some of the most famous dinosaurs is now open to the public again
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The sign makes me smile every time. It was made when the massive sauropod dinosaurs were thought to spend most of their time in water
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The show's setting in a lush, 85-million-year-old jungle may be unique, but the tempo follows many of the standard TV tropes
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A visit to Munich meant a pilgrimage to the paleontology museum
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Feathered dinosaurs do have feathers, and the cannibalism storyline is solid, but it's a shame to see venomous Sinornithosaurus and the "dino gangs" trap
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How many students are still meeting outdated dinosaurs, rather than the dinosaurs we now know?
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The show borrows heavily from other sci-fi sources and the first episode was heavy on exposition. But what about the dinosaurs?
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Paleontologists typically have only a handful of specimens, represented by incomplete materials, from a range of sites spanning millions of years
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For the first time in 65 million years, non-avian dinosaurs roam the planet—and the best we can do is turn 'em into chunky cat food
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In it's own weird way, Raptor is the matryoshka doll of awful dinosaur cinema
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The find may help sort out the history of troodontid dinosaurs in North America
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What sets the program apart is the fact that science is woven into each episode, whether it's Carcharodontosaurus duking it out or spinosaurs hunting
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NPR's Tyrannosaurus tribute features fossil hunter Barnum Brown, skeleton news and short videos of a Tyrannosaurus strutting to "Stayin' Alive"
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Linhevenator may not have used its arms to capture prey in the same way as its kin, even if it did have a specialized killing claw
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What do you think—which of these films most deserved to make it to the big screen?
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The Apatosaurus drags its tail, the Tyrannosaurus takes up a Godzilla-like posture and poor Velociraptor couldn't hold a glass of wine even if it wanted to
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A tiny, 112-million-year-old impression of a baby armored dinosaur shows the head and the underside of its body
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