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

Paleontologists Are Fuming Over AI Depictions of Prehistoric Animals

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A rat with at least four testicles, one larger than its head, published in a scientific journal earlier this year.

See how scientists uncover 50,000-year-old fossils from California's La Brea Tar Pits where saber-tooth cats and mammoths have been found

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The La Brea tar pits museum with tall buildings around it and a lawn in front
Located in Los Angeles, the La Brea tar pits are a piece of the ancient past stretching back 50,000 years.

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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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Forrest Sheperd as a teenager walking on the beach near where he found an ancient walrus skull.

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Scientists discovered a new dinosaur species, and it could reshape the history of T. rex's evolution

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Scientists discovered a new dinosaur species that was comparable in size to T. rex.

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A tiny ancient elephant that roamed Sicily 200,000 years ago had babies the size of pet dogs

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A photograph of an exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History showing a reconstructed model of a Sicilian dwarf elephant and its baby.
An adult Sicilian dwarf elephant was about the size of Shetland pony. Its baby was more akin to a dog.

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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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Paleontologists Find Trilobite’s Last Meal in 465-Million-Year-Old Fossilized Stomach

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Here’s something to chew on: a fossilized trilobite from the Ordovician Period, which is so well preserved that a team of paleontologists was able to identify its last meal, now mineralized in the creature’s fossil stomach.

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Scientists uncover a 'bizarre' leggy dinosaur unlike anything seen before, and it could rewrite the history of bird evolution

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An artist's impression of 150-million-year-old avialan theropod Fujianvenator prodigiosus shows a leggy, plumed dinosaur screatching as it stands over a prey.
An artist's impression of Fujianvenator prodigiosus. Scientists think this dinosaur could be a much needed missing link in the history of bird evolution around the Jurassic period.

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