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A North Carolina paleontologist led the team that uncovered and identified a new dinosaur species. The fossils were uncovered in 2015 in Utah. Since then the team has been studying them and now says ...

A new dinosaur discovered by a team of North Carolina-based paleontologists could provide more information about the history of our planet dating back tens of millions of years, and inform ongoing ...

A newly discovered plant-eating dinosaur may have been a species' 'last gasp' during a period when Earth's warming climate forced massive changes to global dinosaur populations. A newly discovered ...

Paleontologists have made a significant discovery in Utah, as a new dinosaur fossil named Iani smithi has been found in rocks dating back 99 million years. The dinosaur, which was about 12 feet in ...

Paleontologists excavated the fossils in 2015 at a site called the Mussentuchit Member in southern Utah, said lead study author Lindsay Zanno, head of paleontology at the North Carolina Museum of ...

Reconstruction of a juvenile Iani smithi. An adult of this newly discovered species would have been at least 15 feet long. Researchers at North Carolina State University have discovered a new dinosaur ...

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Even after two centuries of research, paleontologists still know relatively little about certain expanses of time in the Age of Dinosaurs. The middle part of the Cretaceous, from about 83 million to ...

A newly discovered plant-eating dinosaur may have been a species’ “last gasp” during a period when Earth’s warming climate forced massive changes to global dinosaur populations. Iani smithi lived in ...