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The team next to their fossil findings.
Queensland Museum
100 million-year-old plesiosaur skeleton discovery ‘could hold the key’ to prehistoric research
The American lion, otherwise known as Pathera atrox, was the largest extinct cat to live in North America during the Ice Age, according to the National Park Service.
Benji Paysnoe/NPS
Rare ice age fossils discovered on the drought-stricken Mississippi River
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James Gurney
Dinosaur larger than T. rex couldn’t swim well despite large fish being on the menu
An artist's life reconstruction of the bird-like Cretaceous Period dinosaur Natovenator polydontus, which boasted a streamlined body resembling those of diving birds and lived about 72 million years ago in what is now the Gobi Desert of Mongolia.
Yusik Choi/Handout/Reuters
A new species of dinosaur might have dived like a duck to catch its prey
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Felix Augustin/Peter Nickolaus/Dylan Bastiaans
Newly identified dinosaur that lived on island of dwarfed creatures had an unusual head
Kimberella fossil, discovered Russia in 2018, shows evidence of the earliest known animal meal, scientists said.
Dr Ilya Bobrovskiy/GFZ-Potsdam
World’s ‘oldest meal’ discovered in 550-million-year-old fossil
A visitor looks at the skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus Rex named Shen at the Victoria Theatre and Concert Hall in Singapore on Oct. 28, 2022. The skeleton is displayed in Singapore from Friday to Sunday, before being auctioned in China's Hong Kong. (Photo by Then Chih Wey/Xinhua via Getty Images)
Then Chih Wey/Xinhua/Getty Images
Christie’s withdraws T. rex skeleton from auction days before sale
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Yvette C. Lee
An underwater cavern is one of many safe havens that could help restore the marine world
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The Royal Society
A priceless fossil destroyed in WWII has resurfaced in an unusual way
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Ashley McCabe
Meet Massachusetts’ new state dinosaur
TOPSHOT - People look at a home decorated with pumpkins and ghosts for Halloween, in Burbank, California, October 30, 2021. - Last year's Halloween celebrations were severely curtailed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. (Photo by Robyn Beck / AFP) (Photo by ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)
Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images
This year’s most popular Halloween costumes include Spider-Man, the ‘Stranger Things’ kids and dinosaurs
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North Dakota Geological Survey
Mummified dinosaur’s skin was gnashed by ancient crocs
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From Range et al
Asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs also triggered a global tsunami
Illustration of NASA's DART spacecraft and the Italian Space Agency's (ASI) LICIACube prior to impact at the Didymos binary system.
Steve Gribben/Johns Hopkins APL/NASA
NASA spacecraft will reveal first look at an asteroid, then slam into it