Dramatic Fossil Shows Prehistoric Sea Cow’s Brutal Encounter With Crocodylian and Shark

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Artist's rendition of manatee being killed by crocodilian, with shark in background

An amateur fossil hunter found a 7-foot-long mammoth tusk that's thousands of years old — take a look

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Two people crouch in muddy water near a large mammoth tusk
Eddie Templeton (right) found a well-preserved mammoth tusk in a Mississippi creek.

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Ancient Arthropod Was Shaped Like a Taco and Swam Upside-Down

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An illustration of Odaraia.

Stegosaurus Fossil Sells to Hedge Fund Billionaire for Record-Breaking $45 Million

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Apex the dinosaur fossil auctioned off for $45 million to Ken Griffin

52,000-Year-Old Mammoth ‘Beef Jerky’ Reveals Exquisitely Preserved Chromosomes

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Photo: Love Dalén, Stockholm University

A 13-year-old found a 5-million-year-old fossil, and now there's a new species of walrus named in his honor

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A young teenager walks on the beach holding tools for excavating fossils and wearing a red jacket and backup
Forrest Sheperd as a teenager walking on the beach near where he found an ancient walrus skull.

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Massive skull of prehistoric sea monster that was the 'ultimate killing machine' discovered in UK

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Jurassic Coast, Dorset | Stock illustration of a Pliosaur
Jurassic Coast, Dorset | Stock illustration of a Pliosaur

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Dire wolves, camels, and other extinct giant mammals that used to live in North America

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Three woolly mammoths stand in a field of brownish plants in an artist rendering

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A tiny 'ice mouse' with teeth the size of sand grains survived some of the coldest temperatures when dinosaurs roamed the Earth

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A painting of Ugrunaaluk kuukpikensis, a duck-billed dinosaur, with an insert of the tiny Sikuomys mikros, a shrew-like animal, that illustrates a scene from ancient Alaska during the Cretaceous Period.
Sikuomys mikros would have had to dodge much-larger dinosaurs when it foraged for food.

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A gold miner found a mysterious grapefruit-sized fur ball. It turned out to be a 'perfectly preserved' 30,000-year-old squirrel.

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A stiff ball of brown fur sits in a pair of human hands wearing white surgical gloves.
This ball of brown fur and gnarled legs and claws turned out to be a mummified Arctic ground squirrel.

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