As soon as Colossal Biosciences declared that it brought the dire wolf back from extinction, everyone felt a sense of wonder.

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Take one Pompeiian example, set up by the freedman Publius Vesonius Phileros, which opens with ineffable politeness: ...

Karon is shy to admit that her fictional town of Mitford is based on Blowing Rock, North Carolina, but residents are ...

Dinosaurs may not have been declining before the asteroid impact after all – new research shows that the apparent drop in ...

A group of Earth scientists believes they probably were not. While it’s true that fossils from the final dinosaur era are comparatively rare compared to those that came before, it seems the ...

A new study from McGill University is reshaping how scientists date dinosaur fossils in Alberta's Dinosaur Provincial Park (DPP). Using advanced drone-assisted 3D mapping, researchers have ...

However, at face value, the fossils available for study from this time — more than 8,000 — suggest the number of dinosaur species peaked about 75 million years ago and then declined in the 9 ...

Dinosaurs' Apparent Decline Prior to Asteroid May Be Due to Poor Fossil Record Apr. 8, 2025 — The idea that dinosaurs were already in decline before an asteroid wiped most of them out 66 million ...

Scientists have uncovered the first known fossil with air pockets, a feature previously unseen in this specific type of dinosaur. The fossils belong to a family of fast-moving dinosaurs called ...

A new study challenges the belief that dinosaurs were declining before the asteroid impact that ended their reign. Analysing 18 million years of fossil data, researchers argue that apparent drops ...

Apr. 8, 2025 — The idea that dinosaurs were already in decline before an asteroid wiped most of them out 66 million years ago may be explained by a worsening fossil record from that time rather ...