The brush-footed spider (Megamonodontium mccluskyi) was about 1 centimetre lengthy Michael Frese Two fossilised spiders…
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Ancient mini koala may help solve mystery of early marsupial evolution
Reconstruction of the 25-million-year-old marsupial ecosystem Illustration courtesy of Peter Schouten A mini koala meandered…
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Extreme fires caused by ancient humans wiped out Californian megafauna
A sabre-toothed cat cranium within the Page Museum on the La Brea tar pits, California…
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Ancient whale might have been the heaviest animal that ever lived
Reconstruction of Perucetus colossus, a whale that lived in coastal waters round 39 million years…
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Amazing fossil hints mammals hunted dinosaurs three times their size
Illustration displaying the mammal Repenomamus robustus attacking the dinosaur Psittacosaurus lujiatunensis Michael Skrepnick Small mammals…
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Fossil of pregnant ground sloth discovered with fetus inside
Reconstruction from fossils found in Brazil of a pregnant floor sloth and its fetus Jorge…
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Bone disease in sabre-toothed tigers may be a sign of inbreeding
Illustration of the smilodon, or sabre-toothed tiger, which went extinct round 10,000 years in the…
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Ancient reptiles’ long necks made them vulnerable to decapitation
Artist’s impression of the Triassic reptile Tanystropheus hydroides being decapitated by a predator Roc Olivé…
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Woolly mammoths had testosterone surges like those of male elephants
Woolly mammoths have been pushed extinct by people about 4000 years in the past PA…
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Longest dinosaur neck on record was six times longer than a giraffe’s
Illustration of Mamenchisaurus sinocanadorum, a dinosaur estimated to have had a 15-metre-long neck Júlia d'Oliveira…