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

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Computer animations of two giant dinosaurs locked in a fight.
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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An ancient skull unlike any human ever seen is baffling scientists and could rewrite the story of our evolution

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A 3D scan of facial remains shows what we know of the skull uncovered in East Asia. This skull's top is reminiscent of modern humans, but its chin is more like an archaic human.
A computer generated image of the remains from the skull of HLD 6 (show in yellow).

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12 most dangerous dinosaurs of all time, ranked by a paleontologist

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Children playing in a dinosaur exhibit in in Woodland Hills, California. A paleontologist has weighed in on which dinosaurs would be most dangerous to humans.

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The Clumsy, the Weird, the Gross: These Fossils Reveal How Extinct Animals Really Lived

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We know them in death. We know how they died, some of what they ate, how they grew, where they may have roamed, and even if they suffered from disease or injury. Preserved bones can tell us a lot, but perhaps just as interesting are the stories they left in traces, where their behavior, even for one moment, is…

500-Mile-Long Power Line Hits a Roadblock: Ice Age Fossils

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A proposal to build a nearly 500-mile-long stretch of transmission line in Nevada has been further delayed due to the discovery of possible fossil deposits in its path.

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Beachgoer stumbles upon record-breaking 3 foot-long dinosaur footprint left over 160 million years ago

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The fossilized print is seen here shown in rock. It makes the shape of a three-toed clawed foot.
The fossilized print discovered in April 2021, is shown here. Scientists think the meat-eating dinosaur was relaxing in a crouching position when the imprint was made.

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