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Disney characters aside, what would you choose to join this dark and dreary mythological circle? Styx, Erberus, Cerberus, Hypnos?
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When it comes to diamonds in jewelry, perfection is everything. But imperfections are a clue to the past
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The tail vertebra has gouges, divots and scores in five places from at least two different predators
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Most of us never come in contact with a deadly predator, but there are still enough encounters to remind us that humans are not the top of the food web
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Dinosaurs with weird structures such as sails and arrays of horns often make the news, but in this case, the lack of specialized structures is important
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Tracks now readily recognizable as belonging to dinosaurs were once attributed to prodigious birds and other creatures
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Scientists have found that predator species trade off between prey availability and water temperature in their travels
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Solenodons are unusual predators; they are among the few venomous mammals
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It looks more like an alligator doing a dinosaur impression, but there is something unmistakably dinosaurian about it
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The Bighorn Basin’s colorful stripes reveal an ancient riverbed
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Buzz about the new displays, particularly a trio of Tyrannosaurus growth stages, has been growing for months
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In a recent bit of good news, snow leopards have been spotted at 16 camera traps in northeastern Afghanistan
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It's Predator Week here at the blog. What's your favorite predator, either existing or extinct?
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There were five spherical eggs in the 70-something-million-year-old clutch. One egg was cracked in half and filled with cocoons
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I was certain that the bird's plumage had to have been faked, but all the photographer did was darken the background. Those feathers were real
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Dinosaurs are famous for the gargantuan sizes some attained, and that's why these minuscule skeleton sculptures are so charming
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Despite the heat waves across the country, no one is screaming "climate change is real" because of them. Why?
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Cope did not know it at the time, but he had described an especially large representative of a species his rival had named just a year before
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The main drag of Dinosaur, Colorado is festooned with a number of goofy-looking dinosaurs
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What does a music teacher do when he ends up teaching science?
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