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Prehistoric insects that resemble modern lice infested animals as early as the mid-Cretaceous, living and evolving along with dinosaurs and early birds
A meteor 66 million years ago killed and buried fish, mammals, insects and a dinosaur, the first victims of Earth’s last mass extinction. The death scene of the hour of impact has been excavated at an unprecedented fossil site in North Dakota.
An extraordinarily well-preserved dinosaur tail, with a fluffy covering of feathers, has been trapped in a piece of amber for 99 million years. Researchers from China and Canada identify it as a juvenile of some type of coelurosaur, a birdlike dinosaur that walked on two legs.
Subtly, but poignantly, the science of Jurassic World sneaks in evolutionary biology without calling it that. Go see Jurassic World and learn some science, but mostly just have a good adventure.
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A mass extinction caused by volcanic activity wiped out some of the dinosaurs' competitors, allowing them to assume ascendancy. Of course, another mass extinction, caused by a meteor impact caused their demise. Earth is not as hospitable to life as we might like to think.
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