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This Question About Dinosaurs Seems Simple, but No Paleontologist in the World Can Answer It

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Imagine a Tyrannosaurus rex, 30 years old, dying in a floodplain of the Cretaceous. Imagine now a giant sauropod, 60 years old, sinking into a swamp. These individual lifespans, already impressive, are yet nothing in front of another time scale: that of the species themselves. How long did a species of dinosaur survive [...]
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Imagine a Tyrannosaurus rex, 30 years old, dying in a floodplain of the Cretaceous. Imagine now a giant sauropod, 60 years old, sinking into a swamp. These individual lifespans, already impressive, are yet nothing in front of another time scale: that of the species themselves. How long did a species of dinosaur survive [...]

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SciencePost broke the news in on Monday, January 5, 2026.
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