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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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 wet weather clothes near a replica of a velociraptor.
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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