The recent discovery of Raptorex kriegsteini provides invaluable insight into how T. rex evolved into the greatest killing machine.
But the specimen took a wild ride through the illicit fossil trade and came unnervingly close to never being identified.
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http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/dinosaur-black-market
The colors of dinosaurs have long been a mystery, since soft parts aren't preserved in the fossil record.
But for the first time, scientists have teased out colors from fossilized feathers to reveal the orange-and-white ringed tail of a 125-million-year-old dinosaur.
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123018405
