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“Mesozoic” means “middle life,” and this was the time of the dinosaurs. This era includes the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods — names that may be familiar to you. It ended with a massive ...

Researchers have uncovered new evidence that short-lived spikes in ocean phosphorus may have played a major role in two of the most severe marine extinctions in Earth's history. Dr. Matthew Dodd from ...

What we see is that it was an active hunter, which tells us a lot about how we can compare it, for example, to modern-day ...

The new approaches could provide an important boost to conservation in Canada and reduce the burden on Ottawa to do the work ...

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The complete absence of these creatures in later strata suggest they might have vanished in a mass-extinction event that ...

Researchers have uncovered new evidence that short-lived spikes in ocean phosphorus may have played a major role in two of ...

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