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Some dinosaurs in bright orange light as if dust is being spread around

Two Asteroids Ended The Age of Dinosaurs Not One

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We know without a shadow of doubt that around 66 million years ago, the dinosaurs were killed by an enormous asteroid that hit what is today Chicxulub, Mexico. Now, new research has revealed compellin...

A goldfinch perched on a stem of a planet with some brown grasses in the background. A new study says that Britain has lost 73 million birds over the last 50 years

We were so wrong about bird evolution

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Two studies, published on April 1 in the journals Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) and Nature, shed light on a genetic anomaly approximately 65 million years old (exactly when th...

Subdivision of the Triassic according to the ICS, as of 2021

Podcast Episode 84 l When it rained for two million years: Carnian Pluvial Event

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Podcast Episode 84 is on When it rained for two million years, known as the Carnian Pluvial Event

This is the Fossil Cabin near Medicine Bow, Wyoming, United States, built in 1932 as a roadside attraction. It is built of 5,796 dinosaur bones excavated at nearby Como Bluff. It was built as part of a gasoline filling station along US 30 by Thomas Boylan, who had come from California to homestead in Wyoming and had been collecting bones for seventeen years, intending to create sculptures of dinosaurs in front of his house and gas station along the Lincoln Highway. He built the cabin when he realised that he did not have enough for a complete dinosaur. Image credit: Reilly Dibner, Wyoming

A museum made of dinosaur bones

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The Blue Marble Dec 7 1972 Apollo 17 NASA

Video Episode 21 | Earth’s Mass Extinctions

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Earth's mass extinctions were Ordovician, Devonian, Permian, Triassic & Cretaceous which killed the dinosaurs. Now we are on to the 6th one called the Holocene.