Dinosaur

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Dinosaur : any of a group (Dinosauria) of extinct often very large chiefly terrestrial carnivorous or herbivorous reptiles of the Mesozoic era — Merriam-Webster See also OneLook

Encyclopedia

Dinosaurare a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria. They first appeared during the Triassic period, between 243 and 233.23 million years ago, although the exact origin and timing of the evolution of dinosaurs is the subject of active research. They became the dominant terrestrial vertebrates after the Triassic–Jurassic extinction event 201 million years ago; their dominance continued through the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. Reverse genetic engineering and the fossil record both demonstrate that birds are modern feathered dinosaurs, having evolved from earlier theropods during the late Jurassic Period. As such, birds were the only dinosaur lineage to survive the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event 66 million years ago. Dinosaurs can therefore be divided into avian dinosaurs, or birds; and non-avian dinosaurs, which are all dinosaurs other than birds. — Wikipedia

Dinosaur (Encyclopædia Britannica)

Dinosaur Facts (American Museum of Natural History)
Dinosaur Pages (University of California Museum of Paleontology)
The Dino Directory (Natural History Museum)
Dinosaurs (WolframAlpha)

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Talks about Dinosaurs (TED: Ideas Worth Spreading)
Articles about Dinosaurs (Big Think)

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Science

Paleontology, also spelled palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present). It includes the study of fossils to classify organisms and study their interactions with each other and their environments (their paleoecology). Body fossils and trace fossils are the principal types of evidence about ancient life, and geochemical evidence has helped to decipher the evolution of life before there were organisms large enough to leave body fossils. Estimating the dates of these remains is essential but difficult: sometimes adjacent rock layers allow radiometric dating, which provides absolute dates that are accurate to within 0.5%, but more often paleontologists have to rely on relative dating by solving the “jigsaw puzzles” of biostratigraphy (arrangement of rock layers from youngest to oldest). — Wikipedia

Paleontology (Encyclopædia Britannica)

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Library

DDC: 567.90 Dinosaurs (Library Thing)
Subject: Dinosaurs (Library Thing)

Subject: Dinosaurs (Open Library)

LCC: QE 862.D5 Dinosaurs (UPenn Online Books)
Subject: Dinosaurs (UPenn Online Books)

LCC: QE 862.D5 Dinosaurs (Library of Congress)
Subject: Dinosaurs (Library of Congress)

Subject: Dinosaurs (WorldCat)

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Dinosaurs (Ology, American Museum of Natural History)
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Dinosaurs News -- ScienceDaily All about dinosaurs. Read about dinosaur discoveries including gigantic meat-eating dinosaurs, earliest dinosaurs and more. Dinosaur pictures and articles.

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on November 29, 2023 at 8:01 pm
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on November 1, 2023 at 10:06 pm
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on October 5, 2023 at 3:07 pm
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A turtle time capsule: DNA found in ancient shell
on September 28, 2023 at 7:19 pm
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on September 21, 2023 at 7:45 pm
Palaeontologists have discovered X-ray evidence of proteins in fossil feathers that sheds new light on feather evolution.

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on November 30, 2023 at 4:58 pm
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Floral time travel: Flowers were more diverse 100...
on November 30, 2023 at 2:49 pm
An international team of researchers led by botanists at the University of Vienna, Austria, has analyzed the morphological diversity of fossilized flowers and compared it with the diversity of living species. They found that flowering plants had already produced a large number of different flower types shortly after their emergence in the Cretaceous period, and this earliest floral diversity was greater than that today.
Why don't we see robotic civilizations rapidly...
on November 29, 2023 at 8:24 pm
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Exploring bird-like footprints left by unknown...
on November 29, 2023 at 7:00 pm
Ancient animals were walking around on bird-like feet over 210 million years ago, according to a study published November 29, 2023 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Miengah Abrahams and Emese M. Bordy of the University of Cape Town, South Africa.
The 'longevity bottleneck' hypothesis: Research...
on November 29, 2023 at 5:28 pm
Human aging may have been influenced by millions of years of dinosaur domination according to a new theory from a leading aging expert. The 'longevity bottleneck' hypothesis has been proposed by Professor Joao Pedro de Magalhaes from the University of Birmingham in a new study published in BioEssays. The hypothesis connects the role that dinosaurs played over 100 million years with the aging process in mammals.

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