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Blood from a golden stone: dinosaur discoveries within amber

In his novel Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton envisioned dinosaurs being cloned using DNA from the blood inside ancient mosquitoes preserved within amber. Amber is a fossilized tree resin (not sap) that often contains plant and animal remains and protects them from many forms of decay.... click to read more

  • W. Scott Persons | Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
  • Philip J. Currie | Professor at Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
  • Corwin Sullivan | Associate Professor at Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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Reading time 4 min
published on Jan 10, 2020
Back off predators!! Herbivorous dinosaur with spiny neck

Sauropod dinosaurs, large herbivores with long neck and tail, include the largest terrestrial animals that ever inhabited the Earth such the giant titanosaur Patagotitan, or the colossal diplodocid Diplodocus. However, some groups of sauropods were not necessarily characterized by their size but by other anatomical... click to read more

  • Pablo A. Gallina | Researcher at Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Fundación Azara; Universidad Maimónides, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Reading time 3.5 min
published on Aug 19, 2019