"Unearthing the Coolest Dinosaur-Age Discoveries in 2023"

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"Unearthing the Coolest Dinosaur-Age Discoveries in 2023"
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Paleontologists made several exciting discoveries in 2023, including a teenage gorgosaurus with the hindlimbs of two-year-old dinosaurs in its stomach, the fossil of a 24-foot-long lizard called Jormungandr walhallaensis, evidence suggesting that dust from the asteroid impact caused the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction, a fossil showing a possum-sized mammal biting down on a beaked dinosaur, an immaculately preserved trilobite, an agate formed inside a dinosaur egg, the discovery of a peculiar reptile with scimitar-like claws, the finding of 92 titanosaur nests in India, the revelation that meat-eating theropod dinosaurs had skin covering their teeth, and the discovery of a Microraptor with a mammal's foot in its stomach. Additionally, the American Ornithological Society announced the removal of human names from common English names of North American birds.

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