Paleontology

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    Paleontologists find 'perfectly preserved' dinosaur skin in South Korea

    Paleontologists in South Korea have found a set of footprints from the Cretaceous Period containing well-preserved traces of a dinosaur's skin. The prints were made by a blackbird-sized Minisauripus, the smallest known theropod, and each

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    New species of dinosaur-era bird discovered

    Paleontologists in China have found a new species of fossil bird that they say reveals a pivotal point in the evolution of flight, when birds had lost the long bony tail seen in dinosaurs, but before they had developed the fan of feathers on a

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