Some 350 footprints found in the Andean country support the idea that adult sauropods cared for the entire herd’s offspring. The discovery also reveals the South American nation’s difficulties in protecting its paleontological heritage
The preservation of soft tissues is one of the forms of fossilization that most fascinates paleontologists due to all the information that these natural mummies reveal, as well as the challenge of explaining how they formed
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Stegosaurus’ earliest ancestors survived even after the Jurassic period and on a continent where their presence was previously unknown
There are many hypotheses, from mating to avoiding the risk of being bitten, that may explain why the famous dinosaur had such ridiculously small forelimbs
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The 93-million-year-old carnivore was named after a dragon from the literary saga that inspired the popular TV series ‘Game of Thrones’
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EL PAÍS spoke with the man who discovered the first and only complete skeleton of the dinosaur, and with researchers about how the portrayal of the species measures up to reality
