Paleontology
Ancient Crocodile-Like Reptile Discovered in Brazil
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Middle-Late Triassic landscape of southern Brazil depicting a large Prestosuchus chiniquensis feeding on the carcass of a dicynodont while individuals of Parvosuchus ...
Scientists Discover True Identity of Ancient Sea-Lizard
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Researchers identified a prehistoric marine reptile found in 1935 as a thalattosaur, not a choristodere, using CT scans and a new specimen. ...
“I’ve Never Seen Anything Like It Before” – Unusual 550 Million Year Old Fossil Solves Paleontological Paradox
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A groundbreaking discovery of a 550 million-year-old sea sponge fossil offers new insights into sponge evolution and guides future fossil searches. Reconstructed ...
Scientists Unveil the True Origins of Welsh Dragons – New Fossil Evidence Changes History
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A major fossil discovery in Wales reveals early dinosaurs lived on a tropical lowland by the sea over 200 million years ago. ...
Scientists Discover Potential Origin of the First “Warm-Blooded” Dinosaurs
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Recent research indicates that some dinosaurs might have developed the ability to internally regulate their body temperature during the early Jurassic period, ...
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 ...