Age of the Dinosaur

Why Allosaurus had a surprisingly weak bite, with Emily Rayfield

T. rex’s arms are the joke everyone makes, but each one was about a metre long, thick and muscular, and by some estimates could lift around 200 kilograms. They only shrank compared with the head, which grew long, wide and strong enough to do the catchi…

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Why Allosaurus had a surprisingly weak bite, with Emily Rayfield

T. rex’s arms are the joke everyone makes, but each one was about a metre long, thick and muscular, and by some estimates could lift around 200 kilograms. They only shrank compared with the head, which grew long, wide and strong enough to do the catchi…

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Dinosaurs had bones in their eyes, with Stephan Lautenschlager

Dinosaurs had bones in their eyes. You don’t, and nor does any other mammal, from dogs to whales to elephants. We’re the odd ones out. Birds, lizards, turtles and fish all have a ring of thin bony plates sitting in the white of the eye, holding a big e…

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Dinosaurs had bones in their eyes, with Stephan Lautenschlager

Dinosaurs had bones in their eyes. You don’t, and nor does any other mammal, from dogs to whales to elephants. We’re the odd ones out. Birds, lizards, turtles and fish all have a ring of thin bony plates sitting in the white of the eye, holding a big e…

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Why you can’t hide from a T. rex, with Jared Voris

The most important part of your nose is inside your brain. Your nose catches the smell, but it’s a lump at the front of your brain that works out what it is: sweet, horrible, or dangerous, like gas in the kitchen. Humans tend to put smell near the bott…

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Why you can’t hide from a T. rex, with Jared Voris

The most important part of your nose is inside your brain. Your nose catches the smell, but it’s a lump at the front of your brain that works out what it is: sweet, horrible, or dangerous, like gas in the kitchen. Humans tend to put smell near the bott…

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Dinosaur chicken nuggets with Jingmai O’Connor

Loads of dinosaurs had wings, but not many of them could fly. There’s a dinosaur in your garden right now, probably the one that keeps stealing your chips, because a seagull is a dinosaur, and so is every robin, pigeon and chicken. Feathers turn up aga…

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Dinosaur chicken nuggets with Jingmai O’Connor

Loads of dinosaurs had wings, but not many of them could fly. There’s a dinosaur in your garden right now, probably the one that keeps stealing your chips, because a seagull is a dinosaur, and so is every robin, pigeon and chicken. Feathers turn up aga…

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Why dinosaurs never dragged their tails with Pasha van Bijlert

A dinosaur’s tail could be a third of the whole animal, about as heavy to lug around as a concrete block, and for well over a century people drew dinosaurs dragging theirs along the ground. They didn’t. Palaeontologists have found thousands…

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Why dinosaurs never dragged their tails with Pasha van Bijlert

A dinosaur’s tail could be a third of the whole animal, about as heavy to lug around as a concrete block, and for well over a century people drew dinosaurs dragging theirs along the ground. They didn’t. Palaeontologists have found thousands…

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