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Dinosaur predecessors gain ground in wake of world’s biggest biodiversity...
Many scientists have thought that dinosaur predecessors missed the race to fill habitats emptied when nine out of 10 species disappeared during the Earth’s largest mass extinction, approximately 252...
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Burke Museum paleontologists discover the first dinosaur fossil in Washington...
Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture paleontologists have documented the first dinosaur fossil from Washington state. The fossil was collected by a Burke Museum research team along the shores of...
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‘Scarface,’ an ancient cousin to mammals, unearthed in Africa
A team of scientists has identified a new species of “pre-mammal” based on fossils unearthed in Zambia’s Luangwa Basin in 2009. The ancient, Dachshund-sized creature lived some 255 million years ago,...
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Paleontologists with the UW’s Burke Museum discover major T. rex fossil
Paleontologists prepare to remove a Tyrannosaurus rex skull from a fossil dig site in northern Montana and transport it to the Burke Museum at the University of Washington.Dave DeMar/Burke Museum/UW...
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Fossilized evidence of a tumor in a 255-million-year-old mammal forerunner
Sketch of a gorgonopsian head, in side view.CCA 3.0/Dmitry Dogdanov When paleontologists at the University of Washington cut into the fossilized jaw of a distant mammal relative, they got more than...
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Frequently asked questions: odontoma in a gorgonopsian
A gorgonopsid skull, but not the one in which the odontoma was found.Christian Sidor/University of Washington Prepared by Christian Sidor and Megan Whitney with the University of Washington and the...
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Decade of fossil collecting in Africa gives new perspective on Triassic...
In this artist rendering, Teleocrater, an early dinosaur relative, is shown feeding on Cynognathus, while hippo-like dicynodonts look on. All of these animals lived in the mid-Triassic of Tanzania,...
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Dinosaur predecessors gain ground in wake of world’s biggest biodiversity...
Many scientists have thought that dinosaur predecessors missed the race to fill habitats emptied when nine out of 10 species disappeared during the Earth’s largest mass extinction, approximately 252...
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Burke Museum paleontologists discover the first dinosaur fossil in Washington...
Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture paleontologists have documented the first dinosaur fossil from Washington state. The fossil was collected by a Burke Museum research team along the shores of...
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‘Scarface,’ an ancient cousin to mammals, unearthed in Africa
A team of scientists has identified a new species of “pre-mammal” based on fossils unearthed in Zambia’s Luangwa Basin in 2009. The ancient, Dachshund-sized creature lived some 255 million years ago,...
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Paleontologists with the UW’s Burke Museum discover major T. rex fossil
Paleontologists prepare to remove a Tyrannosaurus rex skull from a fossil dig site in northern Montana and transport it to the Burke Museum at the University of Washington.Dave DeMar/Burke Museum/UW...
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Fossilized evidence of a tumor in a 255-million-year-old mammal forerunner
Sketch of a gorgonopsian head, in side view.CCA 3.0/Dmitry Dogdanov When paleontologists at the University of Washington cut into the fossilized jaw of a distant mammal relative, they got more than...
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Frequently asked questions: odontoma in a gorgonopsian
A gorgonopsid skull, but not the one in which the odontoma was found.Christian Sidor/University of Washington Prepared by Christian Sidor and Megan Whitney with the University of Washington and the...
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Decade of fossil collecting in Africa gives new perspective on Triassic...
In this artist rendering, Teleocrater, an early dinosaur relative, is shown feeding on Cynognathus, while hippo-like dicynodonts look on. All of these animals lived in the mid-Triassic of Tanzania,...
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Iguana-sized dinosaur cousin discovered in Antarctica, shows how life at the...
Illustration “The midnight sun over Early Triassic Antarctica” by Adrienne Stroup. Along the banks of a river, three archosaur inhabitants of the dense Voltzia conifer forest cross paths: Antarctanax...
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Weathering the tough times: Fossil evidence of ‘hibernation-like’ state in...
Life restoration of Lystrosaurus in a state of torpor.Crystal Shin Hibernation is a familiar feature on Earth today. Many animals — especially those that live close to or within polar regions —...
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Frequently asked questions: torpor in Antarctic Lystrosaurus
Prepared by Megan Whitney with Harvard University and Christian Sidor with the University of Washington and the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture. University of Washington press release here....
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Pandemic-era paleontology: A wayward skull, at-home fossil analyses and a...
Paleontologists had to adjust to stay safe during the COVID-19 pandemic. Many had to postpone fossil excavations, temporarily close museums and teach the next generation of fossil hunters virtually...
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Fossil dental exams reveal how tusks first evolved
Life reconstruction of the the dicynodont Dicynodon. Aside from the tusks in the upper jaw, most dicynodonts possessed a turtle-like beak that they used to chew their food.Marlene Hill Donnelly Many...
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