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3w ago
The ancient shark is typically imagined with the scaled-up stout frame of a modern great white. But in life, the giant may have been more elongated ..read more
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2M ago
The nearly 290 million-year-old cast belonged to a species of amniotes, four-legged vertebrates that today comprises all reptiles, birds and mammals ..read more
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2M ago
Habitat changes drove the demise of , a new study reports. The find could hold clues for similarly imperiled orangutans ..read more
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3M ago
Contrary to the stories handed down among paleontologists, creationism wasn’t to blame for the destruction of Central Park’s dinosaurs ..read more
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3M ago
Feather proteins can change during fossilization, raising questions about what dinosaur feathers really can tell us about feather evolution ..read more
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3M ago
Of more than 400 teeth collected, just 21 were chipped, suggesting that early primate diets were soft on their choppers ..read more
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5M ago
Scientists take a creative approach to investigating what caused the mass extinction 66 million years ago, but the debate is far from settled ..read more
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6M ago
Early birdlike dinosaurs are mostly short-limbed and thought to have lived in trees, but may have run or waded in swamps ..read more
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7M ago
lived about 40 million years ago. It was just 2.5 meters long and weighed less than 200 kilograms ..read more
Science News » Paleontology
7M ago
Rapid drying combined with human-made fires changed Southern California forever, killing off ancient bison, dire wolves and five other megafauna species there ..read more