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The “Wankel Rex,” discovered in Montana in 1988, is one of just a dozen complete skeletons worldwide
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From feathers to black market fossil controversies, 2012 was a big year for dinosaurs
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Recently unveiled dinosaur sculptures are frustrating eyesores to some and tourist attractions to others
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Were enigmatic, 230-million-year-old burrows created by dinosaurs?
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Dinosaurs can help us unlock essential secrets about the history of life on Earth
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The name of the long-snouted dinosaur Irritator hints at the troubled history surrounding the spinosaur's classification
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Claw Shapes: A Glimpse Into the Lifestyle of Raptors?
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Claws once thought to belong to a giant turtle turned out to be from one of the weirdest dinosaurs ever found
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A fragmentary skeleton pins the emergence of dinosaurs more than 10 million years earlier than previously thought
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An articulated hand found in southern Utah complicates the story of North America's feathery, beaked oviraptorosaurs
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Were these Late Cretaceous dinosaurs just the culmination of an evolutionary trend towards ever-larger body size or was something else at work?
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Was the early bird Archaeopteryx more of a glider than a flier?
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A set of partial jaws hold an important place in the history of South American paleontology, but what sort of dinosaur do they represent?
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Gigantspinosaurus had enormous shoulder spikes, but what were these ornaments used for?
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Stegosaurus is immediately recognizable for its prominent plates, but why did these structures actually evolve?
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Everyone knows that birds are dinosaurs, but what kind of dinosaur is your holiday turkey?
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Were extra-thick hides the secret to why paleontologists have found so much fossilized hadrosaur skin?
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When did dinosaurs start to become giants? Enigmatic bone fragments found in England complicate the debate
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Though not as famous as other huge dinosaurs, Futalognkosaurus is the most complete giant sauropod ever found
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