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Footprints show giant carnivorous dinosaurs and their plant-eating prey drank from same Scottish watering hole
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SWEETWATER, TEXAS - OCTOBER 04: In an aerial view, discarded wind turbine blades are seen in a field next to the Sweetwater Cemetery on, October 04, 2023 in Sweetwater, Texas. General Electric filed a lawsuit against Global Fiberglass, claiming that the company has failed to recycle thousands of turbine blades discarded in a field on the west side of town. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
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The frozen mummy of <em>Homotherium latidens</em> (Owen, 1846), specimen DMF AS RS, no. Met-20-1, Russia, Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Indigirka River basin, Badyarikha River; Upper Pleistocene: (A) external appearance; (B) skeleton, CT-scan, dorsal view.
courtesy Prof. Alexey V. Lopatin
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Stunning fossil preserved in fool’s gold reveals newly identified 450 million-year-old species
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Courtesy Professor Chenyang Cai
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An expert from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences cleans and prepares a rock containing dinosaur bone fossil, and clears the rock covering the fossil discovered in Hong Kong's Port Island.
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Dinosaur fossils discovered in Hong Kong for the first time
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