Forget what you’ve seen in Jurassic Park: dinosaurs in real life were far more compelling, well adapted and intelligent than the movie monsters they are so often portrayed as. In this interview with renowned palaeontologist Dave Hone from Queen Mary University of London, we dive into the evidence revealing how dinosaurs and their contemporaries really behaved, exploring how iconic animals such as velociraptors, T. rex and Triceratops fought, hunted and raised their young. We also ask, was Spinosaurus truly aquatic? And how did pterosaurs, the extraordinary winged reptiles, fly?
We’re in a golden age of discovery, says Hone, where new fossils and technologies such as CT scanning and AI-based analysis are rewriting the dinosaur story every year, revealing animals that were richer, stranger and more spectacular than we ever imagined.
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