palaeontology
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Oldest Dinosaur Ever Found Spent The Last 50 Years In A Closet
A team of palaeontologists has discovered what they think is the oldest known dinosaur: a new species which pre-dates previous earliest dinosaur specimens by 15 million years. But they didn’t have to go on an expedition or get their hands dirty to find it — they merely stumbled across it in a museum store room.
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Palaeontologists Are 3D-Printing Dinosaur Robots
Palaeontologists are working on building giant robot dinosaurs out of 3D-printed bones. For science. Short of finding a mosquito trapped in amber and opening an ill-fated velociraptor-laden theme park, that’s the coolest possible way to study dinosaurs.