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When you picture a dinosaur, what does it look like? For Jingmai O'Connor, paleobiologist and associate curator of reptiles at the Field Museum of... Birds are dinosaurs. Here's how scientists know ...

Some of the roads that we drive every day follow the routes of much older trails. STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Oh, I've heard about this, Leila. People say Broadway in New York City follows an old trail, for ...

Exactly how did birds evolve from dinosaurs? It’s a mystery that has been with us for more than 150 years, and palaeontologists are still hunting for pieces of the puzzle today. Among them is the ...

Dinosaur fossils that appear to belong to the same species have been found on different continents, separated by thousands of miles of ocean. It raises the question - how did they get there? For ...

How Do We Understand the Natural World? The Nature of Science and the Field of Paleontology -- How Do We Know When Dinosaurs Lived? Interpreting Earth's History from Rocks -- How Do We Explain ...

Can a skeleton be a storyteller? When it comes to dinosaur bones, the answer is yes — if you know how to listen! Prehistoric fossils are a wealth of critical scientific information. Everything from ...

Anyone who recently saw Jurassic World Rebirth—or any of the previous six movies in the franchise—has likely wondered how dinosaurs got so big. “Oh boy, I don’t think there’s one answer to that ...