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All This Finery Is Made of Petrified Shit
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Coprolites as a source of scientific data and a material for decorative objects
GEMSTONES. Anyone with an interest in dinotopia will surely have come across the curious archaeological material I shall be discussing today. And newcomers are in for a lesson: stalactites hang from the roofs of caves, stalagmites grow up from the floor, and coprolites are simply fossilised shit. Coprolites are not
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Tyrannosaur Tracks on Petrified Ground
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The Skull of a Young Tyrannosaur
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For comparison: on the left, the fang of a sabre-toothed tiger (properly, a smilodon); on the right, the tooth of a tyrannosaur
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The Lower Jaw of a Tyrannosaur
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Discovered a Relative of the Giant Sloth
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One of the Lost Tyrannosaur Teeth
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Pay attention to those very pelvic bones of the tyrannosaur
Pay attention to those very pelvic bones of the tyrannosaur. This one, specifically, is the skeleton of a stegosaur, offered for sale by a private palaeontological company for upwards of two million dollars
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Bistahieversor from New Mexico compared with tyrannosaurs in size and teeth
THE KING'S YOUNGER KIN. Finds of Bistahieversor are extremely few: three more or less complete skeletons and a couple of stray knucklebones. The bones were first discovered in New Mexico. The skeletons of these species scarcely differ from one another, and a dilettante might suppose that Bistahieversor was
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