Paleontology
Girl, 11, Helps Discover Largest Ever Reptile
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It was the largest reptile to ever prowl Earth’s oceans. At some 82 feet, this giant ichthyosaur would’ve been nearly as ...
Footprints in China suggest new megaraptor that roamed with dinosaurs
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An international team of researchers estimated that the fossilized footprints found in China were left by a dinosaur that would be among ...
New Research Reveals That Dinosaurs Were Not As Smart as We Thought
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Image of a T. rex skeletal cast at Senckenberg Museum Frankfurt, Germany. T. rex lived at the end of the Cretaceous (about ...
Scientists Discover 82-Feet-Long Ancient “Giant Fish Lizard” in the UK
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A second two-meter-long ichthyosaur jawbone discovered in Somerset, UK, has unveiled a new giant species, Ichthyotitan severnensis, dating back 202 million years, ...
A New Study Shakes Up Ecological Theories
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Nanuqsaurus, standing in the background, and pachyrhinosaurus, skull in the foreground, were among the dinosaur species included in a new study led ...
“Once-in-a-Million-Years” – Scientists Discover Strange Fossils of Duckbill Dinosaurs in Morocco
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Minqaria bata was around the size of a pony (3-4 meters long) and closely resembles the European species of duckbill dinosaur. Credit: ...
Revolutionary Fossil Find Unveils the Secrets of Early Human Movement
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Recent research on the fossil ape Lufengpithecus’s inner ear structures offers new clues to the evolutionary steps towards human bipedalism, revealing the ...
Scientists Discover Bizarre 380 Million-Year-Old Ancient Fish That Breathed Air
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Life reconstruction of Harajicadectes zhumini, a 40 cm long lobe-finned fish that is not too distantly related to the fishes that gave ...
New Fossil Discovery Sheds Light on Tyrannosaurus Rex’s Earliest Known Relative
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Reconstruction of Tyrannosaurus mcraeensis. Credit: Sergei Krasinski, edited Restudy of fossils collected in New Mexico digs up key clues about T. rex’s ...
Unveiling a Baby Turtle Disguised as a Plant Fossil
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The fossil that was originally interpreted to be a plant, but researchers have now discovered is the inside of the shell of ...