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The CIA wants to bring woolly mammoths back from extinction
By Brandon Specktor published
The CIA is the latest investor in Colossal Biosciences, a company that wants to bring woolly mammoths and Tasmanian tigers back from extinction using DNA editing.
Pterodactyl: Facts about pteranodon & other pterosaurs
By Joseph Castro last updated
Reference Flying reptiles ruled the skies for millions of years.
Astonishing dinosaur mummy has 'glittering' skin that was punctured and ripped by ancient crocs
By Nicoletta Lanese last updated
Scientists uncovered a previously unknown way that dinosaur mummies form.
Tsunami from dinosaur-killing asteroid had mile-high waves and reached halfway across the world
By Laura Geggel published
The dinosaur-killing asteroid triggered mile-high monster waves and waters that reached the world over.
Spectacular T. rex skeleton may fetch $25 million at auction (the new owner gets to name it, too)
By Laura Geggel published
Paleontologists are unhappy that a T. rex specimen from Montana is hitting the auction block in Hong Kong in November.
Crystal-stuffed dinosaur eggs the size of cannonballs discovered in China
By Ben Turner published
East China’s volcanic terrain is ideal for fossil hunters, who discovered the unusual eggs
Ginormous Jurassic fossil in Portugal may be the biggest dinosaur ever found in Europe
By Joanna Thompson published
While researchers have not yet identified the species of an enormous newfound dinosaur, the sauropod is already breaking size records.
Rare fossils reveal basketball-like skin on duck-billed dinosaur
By Jennifer Nalewicki published
The juvenile hadrosaur is impeccably well preserved.
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