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Misidentified bones that languished in the drawers of a Mongolian institute for 50 years belong to a new species of tyrannosaur.
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Making incisions and carefully taking samples, the scientists at a laboratory in Russia’s far east looked like pathologists carrying out a post-mortem. But the...
World
Paleontologists unveiled on Wednesday the fossil of a young marine crocodile dating back 10 to 12 million years that was discovered in a Peruvian...
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Pioneering groups of humans braved icy conditions to settle in northern Europe more than 45,000 years ago, a “huge surprise” that means they could...
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The 2018 B-movie depicted a megalodon preying on modern-day humans, the shark actually went extinct around 3.6 million years ago.
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Look out, blue whale — there’s a new contender for your heavyweight title. A newly discovered whale that lived nearly 40 million years ago...
Tech & Science
The discovery of panda fossils in China has helped researchers solve the mystery of how the giant species developed a "false thumb" and became vegetarian in...
Tech & Science
A giant crocodile-faced dinosaur discovered on the Isle of Wight by one of Britain's best fossil hunters was probably the largest predator ever.
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Argentine paleontologists have announced the discovery of an apex-predator dinosaur that measured three stories from nose to tail.
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The fossils of three ichthyosaurs -- giant marine reptiles that patrolled primordial oceans -- have been discovered high up in the Swiss Alps.