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An illustration of a Gorgosaurus feeding on a Citipes in the forest

What’s for dinner? UCalgary paleontologist finds out through remarkable specimen

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110-million-year-old raptor skeleton
In the News: The Conversation Canada

Why a 110-million-year-old raptor skeleton should never have been sold at auction for over US$12M

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Dinosaurs
In the News: The Conversation Canada

The discovery of two giant dinosaur species solves the mystery of missing apex predators in North America and Asia

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Oviraptorosaurs are a group of birdlike dinosaurs that were part of the ancestral dinosaur lineage that later gave rise to birds. Oviraptorosaurs walked on two legs, had a powerful toothless beak and were covered in feathers. One of the first known species, Oviraptor philoceratops, was discovered in the 1920s when a skeleton was uncovered alongside a nest of eggs in Cretaceous rocks of Mongolia’s Gobi Desert. Paleontologists at the time assumed that the animal had died while attempting to raid the nest of

An exquisitely preserved egg reveals what birds have inherited from dinosaurs

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Artist's reconstruction of baby oviraptorid in its egg.

One-of-a-kind perfectly preserved dinosaur embryo discovered inside its fossilized egg

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Reaper of Death

Recently discovered Alberta tyrannosaur, the 'Reaper of Death,' gets its own coin

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Guinness world record for smallest-ever dinosaur egg fossil found in Japan

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Baby hadrosaur dinosaur bone fossil

Researchers analyze first-ever discovery of soft-shelled dinosaur eggs

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David Terrill examines a dinosaur fossil

Canadian dinosaurs stayed put for the winter, new study shows

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Jared Voris

New, large meat-eating dinosaur discovered in Alberta

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