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A new study sheds light on how these reptiles become “mummies” and paints a picture of what these ancient animals looked like. Paul Sereno and his colleagues spent years painstakingly preparing this ...

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Scientists have long debated whether dinosaurs were in decline before an asteroid smacked the Earth 66 million years ago, causing mass extinction. New research suggests dinosaur populations were still ...

A site in the San Juan Basin of northwestern New Mexico is providing a rare glimpse into the last days of the dinosaurs. Rocks and fossils at the Naashoibito Member site show an ecosystem that was ...

More than a century ago prolific fossil collector Charles Sternberg discovered the skeleton of a duck-billed Edmontosaurus dinosaur in the sandstone rocks of the Lance Formation in eastern Wyoming.

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He's got soul, and he's a soldier. In Netflix's "Boots," a sweet and funny new dramedy set at the U.S. Marine Corps boot camp in 1990, young gay man Cameron Cope (Miles Heizer, "Parenthood") is that ...

Investing in the best fall boots is always a smart move—after all, they end up generally seeing wear for nearly six months (or more!) out of the year, if you count those transitional moments in ...

CORRECTION: A North Carolina animal rescue on Sept. 26 corrected an earlier email it shared with McClatchy News. The kitten named Happy lost tissue around one of his eyes, according to Heart of the ...

Scientists have discovered a new dinosaur from Argentina with powerful claws, feasting on an ancient crocodile bone. The new find was possibly 23 feet long and hailed from a mysterious group of ...