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Gobiraptor reconstruction.
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New oviraptorosaur species discovered in Mongolia

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Eofringillirostrum boudreauxi
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Earliest known seed-eating perching bird discovered in Fossil Lake, Wyoming

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T. rex had an unusually flexible skull. Credit: Senckenberg
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T. rex possessed a unique flexible skull

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The isolated Archaeopteryx feather is the first fossil feather ever discovered. Top image, the feather as it looks today under white light. Middle image, the original drawing from 1862 by Hermann von Meyer. Bottom image, Laser-Stimulated Fluorescence (LSF) showing the halo of the missing quill. Scale bar is 1cm. Credit: Copyright The University of Hong Kong
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First discovered fossil feather did not belong to iconic bird Archaeopteryx

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Stunningly well-preserved fossilized soft tissues of a stylophoran have recently been discovered
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These strange fossils are closely related to sea urchins

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Coprolites, or fossil droppings, of the dinosaur-like archosaur Smok wawelski contain lots of chewed-up bone fragments. This led researchers at Uppsala University to conclude that this top predator was exploiting bones for salt and marrow, a behavior often linked to mammals but seldom to archosaurs. Credit: Martin Qvarnström
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The 210-million-year-old Smok was crushing bones like a hyena

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A slab containing fossils of Antarctanax. Credit: Copyright Brandon Peecook, Field Museum
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Iguana-sized dinosaur cousin discovered in Antarctica

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These are well preserved footprints of the find site in Morocco, with clearly visible claw impressions. Credit: The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology
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Long-necked dinosaurs rotated their forefeet to the side

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Complete fossil and line drawing of Eretmorhipis carrolldongi.
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A reptile platypus from the early Triassic

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One of the tiny fossilized teeth recovered from Galagadon, so named for the shape of its teeth, which resemble the spaceships in the video game Galaga. Credit: Copyright Terry Gates
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Ancient carpet shark discovered with ‘spaceship-shaped’ teeth

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Crocodiles have complex past

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Tethymyxine tapirostrum, is a 100-million-year-old, 12-inch long fish embedded in a slab of Cretaceous period limestone from Lebanon, believed to be the first detailed fossil of a hagfish.
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Fossilized slime of 100-million-year-old hagfish shakes up vertebrate family tree

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Robot recreates the walk of a 290-million-year-old creature

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CHW 189 from the private collection of Herman Winkelhorst (Netherlands). The neck of the animal is excellently preserved, but the rest is not. One possible explanation may be that this is the result of uneven colonization of the carcass by microorganisms and algae, which created a protective layer especially around the neck
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Fossil deposit is much richer than expected

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Reconstruction of trilobite ancestral range in the southern hemisphere

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Part of a quilted Ediacaran fossil is partly covered by ancient wind-drift from Namibia. Image courtesy of Greg Retallack.
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Thin layers of sediment point to early arrival of life on...

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Life reconstruction of ichthyosaur skull. Credit: Bob Nicholls (Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum)
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Medical scanner helps to unlock the mysteries of a giant prehistoric...

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Four complete Tragychrysa ovoruptora newborns preserved together with egg shell remains and one visible egg burster (right inset). Credit: Modified from the open access article published in Palaeontology: 'The hatching mechanism of 130-million-year-old insects: an association of neonates, egg shells, and egg bursters in Lebanese amber'
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Newborn insects trapped in amber show first evidence of how to...

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Mammalian diversification after extinction of the dinosaurs

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Saltriovenator zanellai
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The oldest large-sized predatory dinosaur comes from the Italian Alps

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