Teeny Tiny T-Rex Arms

Why did the fearsome T-rex have such tiny arms? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Finally, this age-old question has an answer! All with the help of Charlie Scherer and team from University College London. They studied the evolution of almost ninety different carnivorous, two-legged

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Dino Decoder

These dinosaur bones were made for walking! But how?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. It’s not enough to just eye-ball some fossils and guess how a creature moved.  For that, we need bone-on-bone mapping. Armita Manafzadeh and team at Yale University built 3D models

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Brontosaurus Bronchitis

ACHOO! I’m feeling so Juras-SICK!  This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science, saying… What’s worse than a horse with hay fever? A dino-SAUR throat! Enter Cary Woodruff from The Great Plains Dinosaur Museum and some paleo-centric colleagues. Their test subject? A one hundred and fifty MILLION

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Cray-Sea Creatures

What’s big, scaly, and eats more than your Dad at a discount buffet? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science, saying… Ichthyosaurs! These ancient REPTILES swam in oceans but breathed air… Imagine something like a scaly dolphin, but the size of a whale!  In fact, P.

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Brontosaurus Bronchitis

ACHOO! I’m feeling so Juras-SICK!  This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science, saying… What’s worse than a horse with hay fever? A dino-SAUR throat! Enter Cary Woodruff from The Great Plains Dinosaur Museum and some paleo-centric colleagues. Their test subject? A one hundred and fifty MILLION

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Cray-Sea Creatures

What’s big, scaly, and eats more than your Dad at a discount buffet? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science, saying… Ichthyosaurs! These ancient REPTILES swam in oceans but breathed air… Imagine something like a scaly dolphin, but the size of a whale!  In fact, P.

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