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Skull of the ancient hominin from China.
Xiujie Wu/National Research Center on Human Evolution
300,000-year-old skull found in China unlike any early human seen before
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Thanit Nonsrirach
Scientists sliced open ancient poop and discovered a story of coevolution
Reconstruction of Hupehsuchus about to engulf a shoal of shrimps.
Shunyi Shu/Long Cheng/Wuhan Center of China Geological Survey/Courtesy University of Bristol
New fossils reveal specialized eating technique of unusual ancient marine reptile
Reconstruction of Shaihuludia shurikeni from the Spence Shale of Utah. Artistic reconstruction of an adult specimen by Rhiannon LaVine.
Courtesy Rhiannon LaVine/University of Kansas
Researcher names recently discovered 500-million-year-old sea worm after ‘Dune’ monster
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Christian-McCall
Oldest known species of jellyfish discovered in the Canadian Rockies
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Alberto Gennari
A newly discovered colossal whale might be the heaviest animal ever, study finds
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Felix Augustin
Exquisitely preserved fossil of Jurassic sea turtle includes near-complete skull and limbs
Tiger sharks, one of Australia's primary predators, may help ecosystems respond to extreme climate events.
Media Drum World/Zuma
Sharks are millions of years older than dinosaurs and 5 other facts that may surprise you
Repenomamus robustus attacks Psittacosaurus lujiatunensis moments before a volcanic debris flow buries them both, ca. 125 million years ago.
Michael W. Skrepnick
‘Once in a lifetime’ fossil reveals a dinosaur and mammal locked in mortal combat
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Emerald Downs
Video ‘They’re off!’: Grandparents Derby quickly leads to face-plants 1:59
A new armoured dinosaur, known as an ankylosaur, has been described and named for Prof Paul Barrett of the Natural History Museum. Vectipelta barretti was discovered in the Wessex formation on the Isle of Wight and represents the first armoured dinosaur from the dinosaur Isle to be described in 142 years.
Natural History Museum
New dinosaur with blade-like spikes for armor discovered on UK’s Isle of Wight
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Amblin/Universal/Kobal/Shutterstock
‘Jurassic Park’ still has bite at 30 years old, and here’s why
Iani Smithi
Jorge Gonzalez
Rare North American dinosaur named for two-faced Roman god
An artist's reconstruction of a pterosaur.
Courtesy Peter Trusler/Curtin University
Pterosaur bones found in Australia reveal world’s oldest flying reptile lived there 107 million years ago
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Mark Celeskey
Saber-toothed mammalian ancestor reveals how unstable life was during ‘the Great Dying’
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Kristen Grace/Florida Museum of Natural History
Rare fossils reveal the butterfly ‘tree of life’ over the past 100 million years