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Science This tiny skull trapped in amber belongs to the smallest dinosaur ever discovered David Pescovitz

Old school 1941 film shows striking animators brandishing a working guillotine at the Disney studio gates Cory Doctorow

Science Rats' nests are rich with unrecorded history and urgent scientific data David Pescovitz

biology Check out this 480 million-year-old conga line of arthropods David Pescovitz

australia Flying T-Rex fossils found in Australia, because of course they were Thom Dunn

History Paleocomputing watch: Tech magazines cover the BBS scene Cory Doctorow

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Science Check out this massive dinosaur femur just found in France David Pescovitz

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Living dinosaurs could be recreated within a decade, says paleontologist Rob Beschizza

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happy mutants The best Christmas computer and electronics ads of 1980 Cory Doctorow

useful stuff Good deal on yogurt maker with seven glass jars Mark Frauenfelder

fossils A new species of Archaeopteryx Jason Weisberger

dinosaurs Russians cloning wooly mammoths, Jurassic Park-style "Ice Age theme park" may be in the works Jason Weisberger

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Science Man finds rare 25-million-year-old teeth from massive shark David Pescovitz