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Scientists in Argentina unearth oldest tadpole fossil ever discovered
A tadpole fossil found in Argentina, dating back at least 161 million years, is the oldest that has ever been discovered. The ...
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Fossil of new ancient mammal found in Colorado
"Its genus name is Heleocola, which literally translates to 'swamp dweller.'" Eberle said that finding mammal fossils from ...
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Rare ‘Terror Bird’ Fossil Found in Colombia Reveals the Enormous Size of a Prehistoric Predator
The bone, described two decades after its discovery, suggests the species might have grown up to 20 percent bigger than other ...
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'Another piece of the puzzle': Antarctica's 1st-ever amber fossil sheds light on dinosaur-era rainforest that covered South Pole 90 million years ago
Until now, Antarctica was the only continent on Earth without any known amber fossils. But sediment cores taken from below the seafloor have revealed a tiny piece of fossilized resin holding fragments ...
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World’s largest arthropod lived 300 million years ago. Now, fossils show what it really looked like
Scientists in Great Britain first found fossils of Arthropleura in 1854, with some adult specimens reaching 8.5 feet (2.6 meters) long. But none of the fossils included a head, which would help ...
Giant flesh-eating ‘Terror Bird’ fossil uncovered – but scientists find it was killed by even more terrifying beast
A FLESH-EATING bird has been uncovered after nearly 12 million years in a Colombian desert. Scientists revealed this extinct “Terror Bird” was the largest of its kind but explained which ...
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Fossils Inspired This South African Rock Art That Depicted Mythical-Like Creatures
But one fossil with large tusks is found quite commonly in the Karoo ... while others were more like wild pigs. There were ...
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Giant ‘terror bird’ from South America is one of the largest ever found
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Ancient ‘terror birds’ were giant apex predators. Suspected new species is among the largest ever known
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At Lightning Ridge, palaeontologists, opal miners and fossil collectors come together to dig up precious relics
In a fossil-rich pocket of northern New South Wales, two pioneering palaeontologists have spent decades digging up rare ...