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A Painted Turtle

‘Red gene’ in birds and turtles suggests dinosaurs had bird-like colour vision

03 Aug 2016

A gene for red colour vision that originated in the reptile lineage around 250m years ago has resulted in the bright red bird feathers and ‘painted’...

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Tyrannosaurus tango

Opinion: Mysterious footprint fossils point to dancing dinosaur mating ritual

08 Jan 2016

David Norman (Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences) discusses how palaeontologists can interpret fossil footprints to find clues as to whether dinosaurs...

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Deinonychus

Opinion: Six amazing dinosaur discoveries that changed the world

30 Nov 2015

David Norman (Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences) discusses the fossil discoveries that really made a difference to science.

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Woodcut of the famous (crowded) banquet in Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins' standing Crystal Palace Iguanodon, New Year's Eve, 1853.

Iggy the Iguanodon and the 160-year-old dinosaur song

31 Jul 2015

The Cambridge Animal Alphabet series celebrates Cambridge's connections with animals through literature, art, science and society. Here, I is for...

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The Deccan Traps in western India

Did dinosaur-killing asteroid trigger largest lava flows on Earth?

12 May 2015

The asteroid that slammed into the ocean off Mexico 66 million years ago and killed off the dinosaurs probably rang the Earth like a bell, triggering...

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Rightmove: a T-rex called Clare finds a perfect home

30 Jan 2015

Cambridge gained a new landmark when Clare, a sculpture of a T-rex, was unveiled at the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences earlier today.

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Mammals vs dinosaurs

15 Mar 2013

Were dinosaurs really the most exciting and interesting creatures ever to roam the planet? Zoologist Nick Crumpton tells the Cambridge Science...

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Egg Cetera #2

Egg Cetera #2: The answer to the riddle of which came first

06 Apr 2012

In the second report of our Egg Cetera series on egg-related research, let’s begin with the age-old question: which came first, the chicken or the...

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Ichthyosaur

'Picture This #13' Mary Anning's Ichthyosaur, Sedgwick Museum

19 Jan 2012

Mary Anning’s fossil discoveries revealed an ‘ancient Dorset’, and were influential contributions to the blossoming science of palaeontology during...

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Gardaland

Scientists find first ever southern tyrannosaur

24 Mar 2010

Scientists from Cambridge, London and Melbourne have found the first ever evidence that tyrannosaur dinosaurs existed in the southern continents...

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