Dinosaur Sizes (IMAGE)

University of Oxford

Dinosaur Sizes

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An Oxford University-led team studied how dinosaurs evolved into a huge range of shapes and sizes over 170 million years. Shrinking their bodies may have helped the group that became birds to continue exploiting new ecological niches throughout their evolution.

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Julius Csotonyi

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