The Miniature Adult
For 25 years, Liaoningosaurus paradoxus was paleontology's best candidate for a miniature adult ankylosaur — a three-meter clade's ornamental exception. A new bone-histology paper says: those were babies.
Tagged paleontology
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Doolysaurus
A Korean paleontologist named a baby dinosaur after a cartoon character. The name is funny. It is also more honest about what names do than the Latin tradition has been in two centuries.
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The Hyoid
For thirty-eight years, paleontologists argued about whether a small skull from Montana was its own species or a juvenile of a more famous one. In April 2026, a tiny throat bone settled it. The case file.