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With mouths closed, the older, smaller teeth of the ancestors of today’s sharks stood upright on the jaw, while the younger and larger teeth pointed towards the tongue and were thus invisible when the mouth was closed. Credit: Christian Klug, UZH
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Prehistoric shark hid its largest teeth

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An artist impression of the newly discovered extinct monk seal species Credit: Jaime Bran. Copyrigh: Museum of New Zealand Te Papa.
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Eomonachus belegaerensis : New fossil seal species rewrites history

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Similar to present-day diurnal birds of prey (right), the talons on the hind toe and the second toe of Primoptynx poliotauros (left) are noticeably larger than the talons on the third and fourth toe. In modern owls (center) all four talons are roughly the same size.
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A 55-Million-Year-Old Owl Skeleton

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Fungus gnat trapped in a piece of defaunation resin from Madagascar. Credit: Enrique Peñalver
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After 1760 It Is Called Resin

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Pterosaurs with these types of beaks are better known at the time period from North Africa, so it would be reasonable to assume a likeness to the North African Alanqa. Credit: Attributed to Davide Bonadonna
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Fossil shark turns into mystery pterosaur

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Titanosaurs were common at the time of the asteroid hit at the end of the Cretaceous 66 million years ago. (Credit: AlienCat)
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New analysis refutes claim that dinosaurs were in decline before asteroid...

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The extinct Kiritimati Sandpiper, Prosobonia cancellata - a close cousin of the newly discovered Prosobonia sauli. Credit: George Edward Lodge, 1907
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Henderson island fossils reveal new Polynesian sandpiper species

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Fossil specimen of Kylinxia, holotype. Credit: ZENG Han
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A 520-million-year-old, five-eyed fossil reveals arthropod origin

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Rhamphohynchus - one of 75 pterosaur species studied by the researchers Credit: Mark Witton
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Giant lizards learnt to fly over millions of years

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An illustration of Brevicaudosaurus. Credit: Tyler Stone BA '19, art and cinema; see his website tylerstoneart.wordpress.com
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Ancient marine predator had a built-in float

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Buriolestes schultzi brain. Credit: Márcio L. Castro
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Researchers reconstruct the first complete brain of one of the oldest...

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CT scan of coprolite specimen, BRSMG Cf15546, in different views, showing tuberculated bone (blue) from a fish skull, and two vertebrae from the tail of the marine reptile Pachystropheus, in yellow and green. Credit: Marie Cueille, and Palaeobiology Research Group, University of Bristol
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Fossil poop shows fishy lunches from 200 million years ago

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A Photoshop-created image of how Kataigidodon venetus may have looked, illustrated by Ben Kligman, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Geosciences and Hannah R. Kligman. Credit: Virginia Tech
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New species of ancient cynodont, 220 million years old, discovered

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Kopidosaurus perplexus skull in left lateral view. Credit: Simon Scarpetta
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Lizard skull fossil is new and ‘perplexing’ extinct species

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This illustration shows a reconstruction of Ambopteryx in a glide. Credit: Gabriel Ugueto
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These two bird-sized dinosaurs evolved the ability to glide, but weren’t...

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A crocodile next to a mastodon of the genus Anancus and primitive horses of the genus Hipparion in a similar environment to what could have been Valencia six million years ago. Credit: José Antonio Peñas (SINC)
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African crocodiles lived in Spain six million years ago

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Teeth of a large dinosaur, possibly Metriacanthosauridae, from the Liuhuanggou site in the southern Junggar basin. Scale: 1 cm. Credit: University of Tübingen
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Tooth marks and lost teeth offer insights into dinosaur feeding behavior

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Reconstruction of Morganucodon (left) and Kuehneotherium (right) hunting in Early Jurassic Wales 200 million years ago. Credit: Original painting by John Sibbick, 2013. Copyright: Pam Gill
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Ancient tiny teeth reveal first mammals lived more like reptiles

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An artist's impression of Leptostomia begaaensis Credit: Megan Jacobs, University of Portsmouth
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Beak bone reveals pterosaur like no other

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Researchers discover fossils of new species in Arizona

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