Rediscovering the dinosaurs

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They’re often depicted as huge, scaly beasts, but new discoveri

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How It Works Magazine

22 May, 2025

How It Works

How dinosaurs became birds

Dinosaurs were prehistoric egg-laying reptiles that went extinct millions of years ago, but their survivors still live among us

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Headscratchers

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BBC Countryfile Magazine

Student discovers a remarkable new prehistoric species

A fossilised jawbone found by a University of Portsmouth student is from a newly identified species of prehistoric mammal. Undergraduate Benjamin Weston, 22, unearthed the fossil during a field trip t

Fortean Times

The sea serpent killer’s sceptical scrapbook

The great naturalist Sir Richard Owen coined the term “dinosaur”, wrote the first scientific descriptions of dinosaurs and was a founder of the first Natural History Museum (NHM) and its first directo

BBC Wildlife Magazine

Let’s go large

Fee-fi-fo-fum! it may not make a great deal of grammatical sense, but this phrase is certain to conjure up mental images of magic beans, rampant beanstalks and one very angry giant. Colossal-sized hum