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The Physics of Flight: A Digital Look at How Feathered Dinosaurs Took to the Skies Long before the first airplane defied gravity, nature had already solved the complex physics of flight. The story, however, doesn't begin with birds. It…

Digital Dinosaurs: 5 Biology Myths Shattered by 3D Fossil Scans The dinosaurs of our imagination are titans of cinema. We picture the ground-shaking tread of a Tyrannosaurus rex, the colossal shadow of a long-necked Brachiosaurus, and the…

The Dinosaur Heart: Reconstructing the Four-Chambered Engine of a Giant Beneath the thunderous footsteps and earth-shaking roars that dominate our image of the Mesozoic Era lies a quieter, more profound mystery: the rhythmic, powerful…

Unearthing Dinosaur Nests: What 3D Egg Scans Reveal About Prehistoric Parenting Beneath our feet, buried for tens of millions of years, lie stone-cold cradles. These fossilized dinosaur nests, once pulsing with new life, have long been…

A Fossil's Fever: How Isotope Thermometers Are Cracking the Dinosaur Cold Case What do you consider "warm"? Is it a mild spring day perfect for a walk, or the blistering heat of a tropical afternoon? Our perception of temperature shapes…

From T-Rex to Turkey: Visualizing the 150-Million-Year Evolution Gaze upon the Thanksgiving turkey, resplendent on its platter. It seems the very definition of a domestic fowl, a familiar feature of feasts and farms. But what if we told…

The Ultimate Biological Mystery: How We Digitally Model Dinosaur Mating Rituals Imagine a world without flowers, where giant ferns cast long shadows across a dusty landscape. The air is thick, humid, and filled with the low rumbles of…

Simulating the Stegosaurus: Unearthing the Secrets of Their Plates and Thagomizers Picture the Late Jurassic landscape, 150 million years ago. Amongst the giant ferns and conifers, a truly bizarre and magnificent creature roams: the…

Digital Paleopathology: How We Diagnose Diseases in a 66-Million-Year-Old Patient Imagine a patient lying on an examination table. The skin is gone, the organs have vanished, and all that remains is a skeleton turned to stone. This…

Decoding Dinosaur Diets: What Fossilized Guts and Big Data Tell Us Imagine standing in a silent, misty Cretaceous forest 100 million years ago. In a clearing, the ground trembles. A long-necked sauropod, a creature the size of a moving…