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At first glance, the huge and bulky rhinoceros looks a lot similar to a dinosaur.  Even if you ignore the thick armor-like skin, stump-like legs, and huge body of this animal,  the prominent nasal horn of the rhino makes it eerily similar to the ceratopsid dinosaurs.  This is a group of herbivorous dinosaurs which includes […]

Several million years ago, long before the first humans walked the planet, dinosaurs were the most dominant species on Earth.  They ruled the terrestrial ecosystem for more than 170 million years.  Scientists have been able to trace the evolution of this unique group of reptiles throughout geologic history and reconstruct their family trees as they

When you see a photo or museum reconstruction of a dinosaur, what you’re staring at is the image of an animal that lived several million years ago.  But, in the next couple of minutes, you’ll know what dinosaurs really looked like. In most cases, all scientists get to start with is just a few fragmentary