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Massachusetts Could Be Getting a State Dinosaur—And You Can Help Choose Which One

The Anchisaurus polyzelus is one of the dinosaur's duking it out for title of Massachusetts's state dino.

Massachusetts Could Be Getting a State Dinosaur—And You Can Help Choose Which One

25 Fascinating Facts About Fossils

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25 Fascinating Facts About Fossils

Filtration Software Censored the Word Bone at a Paleontology Conference

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Filtration Software Censored the Word Bone at a Paleontology Conference

Jurassic Park Topped This Weekend's Box Office—27 Years After Its Release

Jurassic Park.

Jurassic Park Topped This Weekend's Box Office—27 Years After Its Release

This Football-Sized Fossil Egg is the First Found in Antarctica, and It May Have Belonged to a Mosasaur

An artist’s interpretation of the birth of a baby mosasaur.

Stegosaurus Tracks Discovered on Scotland’s Isle of Skye

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Tiny, Bird-Like Skull Found in Amber Could Belong to the Mesozoic Era's Smallest Known Dinosaur

The skull of Oculudentavis khaungraae preserved in 99-million-year-old amber.

26 Fascinating Facts About Fossils

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17 Gifts for People Who Just Really Love Dinosaurs

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How the T. Rex at the American Museum of Natural History Became an Icon

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LEGO Dinosaur Fossils Bring Three Species Back From Extinction

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Jeff Goldblum, Laura Dern, and Sam Neill Are Returning to Jurassic Park

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College Student Finds a 65-Million-Year-Old Triceratops Skull During Paleontology Dig in North Dakota

Harrison Duran with a partial Triceratops skull.

Construction Workers Stumbled Upon a 68-Million-Year-Old Triceratops Fossil in Colorado

Dr. Tyler Lyson, curator of paleontology at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, brushes dirt away from a newly uncovered horned dinosaur fossil at a construction site in Highlands Ranch, Colorado.

Why Were Dinosaurs So Large and Why Don't Animals of That Scale Exist Today?

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Mastodon Bones Have Been Discovered by Sewer Workers in Indiana

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