Ancient swimming ‘taco’ had ‘bug jaws’, new fossils show
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A giant armadillo fossil shows that there were people in South America a long time ago
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A rare skull of a mass-exterminated ‘thunderbird’ found in Australia
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A rare skull of a mass-exterminated ‘thunderbird’ found in Australia
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‘Exciting’ fossils found in NSW opal field suggest Australia had ‘age of monotremes’
Some time about 100m years ago in what is now the Australian opal field, a strange, furry, egg-laying, rabbit-sized mammal slithered through a water hole …
The Strange World of Underwater Fossil Hunting
Winding through the low country of South Carolina, the Cooper River is a reedy haven for sportfish and shorebirds. The waterway originates from Lake Moultrie …
The first dinosaur was named 200 years ago. We know a lot more now
By Will Dunham (Reuters) – On February 20, 1824, English naturalist and theologian William Buckland addressed the Geological Society of London, describing a giant jaw …
13-year-old finds 5-million-year-old fossil, and now a new species of walrus is named in his honor
Forrest Shepherd as a teenager walking on the beach near where he found an ancient walrus skull.Forrest Shepherd A 13-year-old fossil enthusiast discovered a walrus …
Scientists have been ‘gobsmacked’ by the rare discovery of an ancient tree
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