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Science And Technology
The ten best science fiction movies about dinosaurs, according to a palaeontologist
“Probably the greatest renditions of dinosaurs on movie in a long time”: Child Triceratops in Strolling with Dinosaurs. Alamy Inventory Picture I’m a palaeontologist at Queen Mary University of London specialising within the behaviour and ecology of dinosaurs, however I additionally write about them. My new e-book, The Future of Dinosaurs, seems to be on the present gaps in our…
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Amazing fossil hints mammals hunted dinosaurs three times their size
Illustration displaying the mammal Repenomamus robustus attacking the dinosaur Psittacosaurus lujiatunensis Michael Skrepnick Small mammals that lived round 125 million years in the past might have preyed on dinosaurs 3 times their dimension, an odd fossil unearthed in China suggests. A handful of fossils from China have proven that mammals from the Cretaceous Interval, such because the carnivores Repenomamus giganticus…
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Crocodiles can reproduce without males – and maybe dinosaurs could too
American crocodiles can reproduce asexually Dasa Petraskova/Shutterstock A completely shaped crocodile fetus has been present in an egg laid by a feminine that had no contact with males – exhibiting for the primary time that “virgin delivery” is feasible in these animals. The feminine fetus – which died at full-term – is a close to genetic reproduction of its mom,…
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Opinion
Road-use charge: Make fossil-fuel dinosaurs pay dearly
Re: “Inslee vetoes collection of WA drivers’ odometer readings” [May 16, Local News]: This plan has been kicking round for an embarrassingly very long time. The thought of creating street upkeep honest for all autos is absurd and fraught with fraud. The thought of balancing electrical autos street utilization with fuel and diesel autos is an argument made by fuel…
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Opinion
Ask the dinosaurs: We aren’t ready for an asteroid ‘Big One’
Right here within the Pacific Northwest, we’re used to residing with the specter of low-probability, high-impact pure disasters. The Nisqually earthquake of 2001 rattles in current reminiscence, however that was only a teaser. We all know that our area is inclined to earthquakes as much as Magnitude 9.0 — practically 200 instances stronger than Nisqually — so we make plans,…
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Amber fossils reveal dinosaurs and beetles had symbiotic relationship
A fraction of amber containing beetle larval moults (higher inset) and bits of feathers most likely from a theropod dinosaur (decrease inset) CN-IGME CSIC Battered feathers and prehistoric beetle larvae encased in amber have revealed a relationship between dinosaurs and bugs that stretches again greater than 105 million years – the oldest instance of symbiosis between dinosaurs and arthropods. “Discovering…
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