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The Top Ten Dinosaur Discoveries of 2020
Smithsonian   22 December 2020   World  
A Tyrannosaurus rex holotype at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History (ScottRobertAnselmo CC BY-SA 3.0)
<p>There&rsquo;s never been a better time to be a dinosaur fan. Even in a year where fossil explorations have been curtailed because of the COVID-19 pandemic, paleontologists have dug deep to describe dozens of new species and unlock new secrets about our ...
Ancient Whale Fossil Helps Detail How the Mammals Took From Land to Sea
Smithsonian   11 December 2019   World  
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<p>Whales don&rsquo;t swim like fish do. Instead of moving their tales side-to-side like a shark or a sunfish, the marine mammals pump their tails up-and-down to propel themselves forward. But over 50 million years ago, the earliest whales had legs and could ...