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Gobi Desert
In the News: CNN

Largest fully preserved dinosaur claw unearthed in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert

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Dinosaur
In the News: CTV News Calgary

Alberta Palaeontological Society hosting its annual symposium open to dinosaur enthusiasts of all ages

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An illustration of a Gorgosaurus feeding on a Citipes in the forest

What’s for dinner? UCalgary paleontologist finds out through remarkable specimen

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A re-creation by paleoartist, Corbin Rainbolt, of what Morotopithecus may have looked like

UCalgary researcher helps give history of early apes a fresh perspective

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Tooth fossils under a microscope

Conodont fossils can be found across the globe — but did they all eat the same thing?

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Dinosaurs
In the News: The Conversation Canada

The discovery of two giant dinosaur species solves the mystery of missing apex predators in North America and Asia

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Oviraptorosaurs are a group of birdlike dinosaurs that were part of the ancestral dinosaur lineage that later gave rise to birds. Oviraptorosaurs walked on two legs, had a powerful toothless beak and were covered in feathers. One of the first known species, Oviraptor philoceratops, was discovered in the 1920s when a skeleton was uncovered alongside a nest of eggs in Cretaceous rocks of Mongolia’s Gobi Desert. Paleontologists at the time assumed that the animal had died while attempting to raid the nest of

An exquisitely preserved egg reveals what birds have inherited from dinosaurs

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Artist's reconstruction of baby oviraptorid in its egg.

One-of-a-kind perfectly preserved dinosaur embryo discovered inside its fossilized egg

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Jared Voris
In the News: MSN News

10 of the coolest dinosaur findings (Jared Voris)

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Dr. Darla Zelenitsky
In the News: Live Science

Newfound 'chief dragon' dinosaur species was actually the size of a chicken (Darla Zelenitsky)

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