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October 21, 2015

Man-eating monster dino nearly wiped out T.rex

A newly discovered predatory dinosaur from Utah is so large that it may represent the biggest species of meat-eating dino that ever lived in North America.

October 21, 2015

Saber-toothed attacked each other, skulls show

Distinctive bite marks on the skulls of cat-like saber-toothed predators that once skulked about North America have revealed a nasty family secret: these felines often ambushed and killed each other.

October 21, 2015

More dinosaur fossils found in NE Wyoming mass grave

Somewhere south of Newcastle, amid the wide-open prairie and rolling hills, rests a mass grave. A femur here. A tooth there. A tip of a tail barely poking through the ground somewhere else.

October 21, 2015

Lost world locked in stone at Fossil Lake

Over thousands of years, dead animals rained down into the muck deep below the surface of long-gone Fossil Lake.

October 21, 2015

Disputed dinosaur formally returned to Mongolia

The dinosaur skeleton that sparked an international custody battle began its journey home Monday, as Mongolian officials formally took possession of the fossilized bones of the T. rex-like predator.

October 21, 2015

History's biggest scientific fraud goes under the microscope

It's a detective story with a century-old crime: The forgery of a supposed "missing link" in human evolution that went undetected for decades.

October 21, 2015

A real big bug problem: Iowa fossils show giant sea scorpion was dominant predator of its time

Earth's first big predatory monster was a weird water bug as big as Tom Cruise, newly found fossils show.

October 21, 2015

Fossils of previously unknown beaver, related to modern species, found in Oregon

A fossilized skull and teeth from a newly described species of beaver that lived 28 million years ago have been unearthed in eastern Oregon.

October 21, 2015

Oldest horned dinosaur in North America was the size of a crow

Triceratops and other horned dinosaurs once thrived in North America, but paleontologists have long wondered how the group originally made it to the continent

October 21, 2015

Giant armored dinosaurs breathed through 'Krazy Straw' airways

Carrying around an exoskeleton of bony armor is hard work.