Fossils

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Mysterious new lizard found inside 125-million-year-old flying dinosaur

Researchers have found the fossilized remains of a new species of lizard inside the stomach of a small flying dinosaur known as a microraptor.

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Unassuming shark that lived 165M years ago was ancestor of great white, megalodon

Researchers have unlocked the mystery behind where the prehistoric predator megalodon and its modern-day successor great white shark came from — and it's not what you might expect.

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Fossil suggests earliest known movement of humans out of Africa

A new study reveals that an ancient skull found in Greece in 1978 may be the earliest known evidence of modern humans outside Africa.

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Unusually large 2-billion-year-old microbe fossils reveal clues about our ancient world

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33,000-year-old cold case solved: New evidence reveals violent death

New scientific analysis of the skull of a man who lived 33,000 years ago suggests that he died a violent death.

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Miners looking for gemstones find ancient sea monster instead

Miners digging for gemstones found something entirely different last month; rather than uncovering the shiny and iridescent gemstone known as ammolite, they discovered the fossilized remains of an ancient sea monster.

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Fossil of 'super bird,' three times larger than ostrich, discovered

Researchers have recently discovered the fossils of one of the largest birds that ever lived, estimating it weighed nearly 1,000 pounds and stood more than 10 feet tall.

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Ancient crocodiles had vegetarian cousins that roamed the planet 200 million years ago, research shows

Modern crocodiles had ancient vegetarian cousins that roamed the planet 200 million years ago, research shows.

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Some of oldest Neanderthal bones have been DNA tested showing more than 70 differences

Some of the oldest Neanderthal bones have been DNA tested showing more than 70 differences from the species that died out 80,000 years later.

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Mysterious dinosaur remains discovered in Colorado are from an adult triceratops, experts confirm

The fossilized remains of a dinosaur that was discovered at a Colorado construction site last month have been identified as a triceratops.

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Sack-like creatures held seafloor 'dinner parties' 500M years ago

More than 540 million years ago, primitive organisms that looked like frilled tulip blooms shared communal meals at underwater "dinner parties," according to fossils found in Namibia.

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Bone-crushing hyenas lived in Canada's Arctic during the last Ice Age

During the last ice age, bone-crushing hyenas stalked the snowy Canadian Arctic, likely satisfying their meat cravings by hunting herds of caribou and horses, while also scavenging mammoth carcasses on the tundra, a new study finds.

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Severed head of 30,000-year-old wolf found intact in Siberia

A severed head of a wolf estimated to have died between 30,000 and 40,000 years ago was discovered by a local man near the Tirekhtyakh River in Eastern Siberia last year, giving scientists a rare opportunity to analyze wolf genealogy and evolution.  

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Fossil of ‘real-life Loch Ness Monster’ found in Antarctica was the biggest sea dinosaur ever

Fossil hunters have pieced together the remains of an enormous sea creature which is being labeled a real-life Loch Ness monster. Researchers have uncovered the 70-million-year-old fossilized remains of a massive elasmosaur from the icy depths of Antarctica unlike anything ever seen before.

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Incredible dinosaur discovery: Herd of opal-encrusted dinos uncovered

Researchers have discovered the fossilized remains of a herd of dinosaurs in an opal mine in the Australian outback.

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50-million-year-old fossil shows school of baby fish in their final moments

One fish, two fish, dead fish, cool fish.

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Rare dodo skeleton up for auction, could sell for $750G

An incredibly rare skeleton of the extinct dodo bird is slated to go up for auction tomorrow and it could bring in big bucks, perhaps surpassing $750,000.

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Australian dinosaur had natural 'high-heel,' researchers suggest

An Australian dinosaur appears to have walked on a natural kind of “high heel,” researchers suggest.

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Teenager finds prehistoric jaw bone of mastodon on Iowa farm: report

A teenager got a big surprise while looking for arrowheads on an Iowa farm.

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Car-size 'sea monster' terrorized Triassic oceans

A crocodile-like beast the length of a Volkswagen Beetle terrorized prey in the late Triassic oceans about 210 million years ago, a new study finds.

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Dogs sacrificed by Shang Dynasty were just pups. Some were even buried alive.

Life was short and sometimes brutal for many of the dogs of China's Shang Dynasty.

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Amazing dino discovery: Fossil of tiny Tyrannosaurus rex 'relative' found

A tiny 3-foot-tall relative of the Tyrannosaurus rex has been discovered and named.

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Ancient millipede walked with dinosaurs, died in a sticky trap

About 99 million years ago, a Cretaceous millipede scampered over the forest floor in what is now Southeast Asia.

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Ice Age bear and wolflike creature found in underwater Mexican cave

Divers excavating an underwater cave in Mexico have discovered the bones of giant meat eaters that lived there during the last ice age, a new study reported.

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Fossils of the first winged mammals dating back 160M years, discovered

Fossils of the first winged mammals dating back 160 million years to the age of the dinosaurs have been discovered.

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'Utterly bizarre' chimera crab fossil discovered: 'Makes you wonder 'what else is out there'

Paleontologists have unearthed the fossil of an ancient crab that lived between 90 and 95 million years ago and is so "utterly bizarre" it literally perplexed the researchers.

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Loch Ness monster mystery solved? Study claims ancient dinosaur discovery influenced delusion

Reports that a creature was living in Scotland's Loch Ness go back to the 6th century, but a new study suggests that the legend of the Loch Ness monster and other long-necked "sea monsters" may have been influenced by something very real and even more terrifying — dinosaurs.

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Indiana farmers uncover ancient mastodon bones

Workers installing a new sewer on an Indiana farm made a mammoth discovery this week — 13,000-year-old mastodon bones.

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'Giant lion' fossils discovered in museum drawer

An extinct species of giant mammal has been identified after its bones were discovered in a Kenyan museum drawer decades after being unearthed.

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Depression-era workers found strange fossilized beasts in 'Texas Serengeti'

About 12 million years ago, antelopes with slingshot-like horns and beasts that weren't quite elephants but that had long trunks and tusks tramped across the "Texas Serengeti" searching for food and caring for their babies.

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Fossilized remains of 430 million-year-old 'sea monster' found

The fossilized remains of a 430 million-year-old sea creature that had tentacles longer than its body have been found in Britain.