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From scientists uncovering the first dinosaur built to swim to finding a new species that looked a lot like T. rex, these were the year's biggest stories
Dinosaurs were primarily cold-adapted animals that also lived in warm climates, says a new study. When other animals went extinct during planetary cooling, dinosaurs survived into the Jurassic period.
There's still much about dinosaurs we get wrong. A new study suggests dinosaurs could withstand the freezing cold thanks to primitive feathers covering their bodies, drastically altering the popular imagery we have of them.
A feathery coat and adaptation to extreme cold helped dinosaurs, even Tyrannosaurus, survive the end-Triassic mass extinction that wiped out reptiles: paper.