Artist’s impression of the Triassic reptile Tanystropheus hydroides being decapitated by a predator Roc Olivé…
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Oldest ichthyosaur fossil hints they evolved before mass extinction
Illustration of the early ichthyopterygian whose stays had been present in Spitsbergen Esther van Hulsen…
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Fossil thought to be earliest bryozoan animal may actually be seaweed
A fossil of a brachiopod shell, centre, with Protomelission hooked up to it, above, which…
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Sea life recovered from Permian mass extinction faster than we thought
A various set of fossils from China exhibits {that a} complicated marine ecosystem existed 251…
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Trilobites used trident-like horns to fight over mates like stags
Three-pronged weapons on the heads of Walliserops fossils counsel that animals first duelled in sexual…
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Largest flower found in amber was frozen in time millions of years ago
This stunning flower was trapped in amber between 33 million and 38 million years in…
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Ancient bird with a movable beak rewrites the story of avian evolution
By Christa Lesté-Lasserre Artist’s reconstruction of Janavis finalidens, a really massive marine chicken from the…
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Gigantic turtle from the dinosaur era was almost 4 metres long
Leviathanochelys aenigmatica, which lived someday between 72.1 million and 83.6 million years in the past,…
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Oldest army ant found in 35-million-year-old Baltic amber
An sudden discovery in a chunk of amber saved at Harvard University for the reason…