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Zuul crurivastator in battle - credit Henry Sharpe

Life

Rare fossil reveals ‘destroyer of shins’ dinosaurs fought each other

Damage to the spikes on the sides of a fossil of a Zuul crurivastator suggest that these armoured dinosaurs didn鈥檛 only use their tail clubs to fend off Tyrannosaurs but also to fight each other

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Earth

How did so many giant meat-eating dinosaurs co-exist in the Jurassic?

Features
An artist's impression of Natovenator polydontus

Life

Newly discovered dinosaur has a streamlined body like a diving bird

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Life reconstruction of Edmontosaurus

Life

Mummified dinosaur has bite marks and gashes in its skin

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Artistic reconstruction of Mbiresaurus raathi (foreground) with the rest of the Zimbabwean animal assemblage in the background. Includes two rhynchosaurs (front right), an aetosaur (left), and a herrerasaurid dinosaur chasing a cynodont (back right).

Life

Two-legged dinosaur from Zimbabwe is the oldest ever found in Africa

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panoramic of Serran?a del Perij?

Life

Colombian dinosaur finally identified thanks to 2016 peace agreement

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Illustration of dinosaurs with meteorite

Earth

A second asteroid may have struck Earth when the dinosaurs died out

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Skull and life reconstruction of Tyrannosaurus rex with original eye socket and eye (left) and hypothetical reconstruction with circular eye socket and enlarged eye (right).

Life

T. rex鈥檚 unusual eye sockets helped it evolve a powerful bite

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Illustration of Tyrannosaurus rex in the jungle

Life

Controversial idea that T. rex was three species comes under fire

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An artist illustration of Meraxes

Life

Meraxes gigas was a huge dinosaur with tiny arms like T. rex

A dinosaur discovered in Argentina has been identified as a new species. Meraxes gigas聽lived 20 million years before T. rex, but had a similarly large body, sharp teeth and proportionately small arms

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Life

Dinosaurs鈥� ability to survive icy cold helped them dominate the planet

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Life

How Prehistoric Planet created scientifically accurate dinosaurs

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Life

Some dinosaurs may have had the reptile version of a belly button

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Comment

Prehistoric Planet review: David Attenborough鈥檚 dinosaur magic

Culture