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The exhibit hit a bump in the road when a diplodocus went up in flames

The quake is said to have released 50,000 times more energy than that created by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake

We see evolution all around us, constantly, in every living thing. Yet in the deep oceans we find a number of “living fossils” reminiscent of creatures from prehistoric times.

But new research published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets arrives at a different size and impact velocity for the Vredefort impactor.

A new study of dinosaur eggs from the time of their mass extinction reveals the species was already on the way out before an asteroid struck.

Scleromochlus, which measured about 8 inches long and likely ate insects and other small invertebrates.

These magnificent creatures once proudly walked on the land that would go on to become the Isle of Skye.

Sixty six million years ago, sea monsters really existed. They were mosasaurs, huge marine lizards that lived at the same time as the last dinosaurs. Growing up to 12 metres long, mosasaurs looked like a Komodo dragon with flippers and a shark-like tail. They were also wildly diverse, evolving dozens…

The 230-million-year-old fossil had been locked inside stone since it was discovered a century ago