paleontology
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Paleontologists Are Fuming Over AI Depictions of Prehistoric Animals
A rat with at least four testicles, one larger than its head, published in a scientific journal earlier this year. A pterosaur with a third foot sprouting from its wing. A museum posting a psychedelic Godzilla-meets-gecko on social media, while a more life-like illustration of the ancient reptile appears on its website. Imagery produced by…
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The Clumsy, the Weird, the Gross: These Fossils Reveal How Extinct Animals Really Lived
We know them in death. We know how they died, some of what they ate, how they grew, where they may have roamed, and even if they suffered from disease or injury. Preserved bones can tell us a lot, but perhaps just as interesting are the stories they left in traces, where their behaviour, even…
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Paleontologist Accused of Making Up Data on Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Impact
A researcher claims that Robert DePalma published a faulty study in order to get ahead of her own work on the Tanis fossil site.
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Dinosaur Tracks Uncovered in Texas
A set of dinosaur tracks were recently found in the aptly named Dinosaur Valley State Park, which is situated in the ‘Dinosaur Capital of Texas,’ also known as Glen Rose, Texas. The city is nicknamed so because 113 million years ago, dinosaurs roamed the area. The proof is in the dinosaur footprints that have been and…