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"Paleontologists are uncovering new dinosaurs at an astonishing rate. On
average, a new species of “terrible lizard” is named about every two weeks from
fossil sites all over the world. And as experts announce each astonishing
species, the nature of the dinosaur family tree shifts. Fossil hunters are not
just uncovering new dinosaur species—they’re revealing entirely new dinosaur
groups that were unknown even ten years ago.
“One of my go-to lines whenever I’m giving a public talk or writing a pop
science article or book,” says University of Edinburgh paleontologist Stephen
Brusatte, “is that we’re in the golden age of paleontology.”
While the 19th-century “Bone Wars” are widely known as when many dinosaurs were
discovered and named, the early 21st century is seeing the greatest dinosaur
bone rush of all time. Paleontologists are rapidly documenting various
non-avian dinosaurs that roamed our planet between 66 million and 235 million
years ago—a span of time more than two and a half times as long as the
post-Cretaceous history of our planet. And experts hypothesize that more
dinosaurs remain unknown than have been uncovered."
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