Fossils
New Study Reveals That Ammonoids Thrived Until Their Sudden Extinction
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A new study challenges the view that ammonoids were declining before their extinction 66 million years ago, showing instead that they remained ...
Fossil of Neanderthal Child with Down’s Syndrome Hints at Early Humans’ Compassion
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Chagyrskaya Cave in the Alta Mountains of southern Siberia / an artist’s impression of a Neanderthal man and child. Archaeologists examining finds ...
New Study Challenges 30-Year-Old Theory Linking Griffins to Dinosaurs
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Painting of a griffin, a lion-raptor chimera, alongside the fossils of Protoceratops, a horned dinosaur. The latter are said to have informed ...
Remarkable New Dinosaur Unearthed in the Ancient Swamps of Montana
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Reconstruction of Lokiceratops in the 78-million-year-old swamps of northern Montana, as two Probrachylophosaurus move past in the background. Credit: Fabrizio Lavezzi © ...
“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. ...
Fossil of 308-million-year-old spider ancestor with prickly legs found
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Once a spider-like species that crawled through the Carboniferous coal forests of North America and Europe have now been traced back to ...
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 ...
Dentist Makes an Unsettling Discovery in the Floor of His Parents’ Newly Renovated Home
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Something about one of the floor tiles in his parents’ newly renovated European home seemed extremely strange. That’s because the man who ...
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, ...
