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The ichthyosaur specimen with its stomach contents visible as a block that extrudes from its body. Credit: Ryosuke Motani

Massive, well-preserved reptile found in the belly of a prehistoric marine carnivore

Geology Page - August 20, 2020

Meganeura

Meganeura : The largest insect ever existed was a giant dragonfly

The fossilized remains of this Xiphactinus - similar to the one found in Argentina - was discovered in the US state of Kansas and sold at auction in 2010

Fossil of giant 70m year-old fish found in Argentina

Mammoth bones are pictured in Tultepec, Mexico in this handout photograph released by Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology (INAH)

Huge trove of mammoth skeletons found in Mexico

Over approximately 2.5 million years, North America likely hosted 2.5 billion Tyrannosaurus rexes, a minuscule proportion of which have been dug up and studied by paleontologists, according to a UC Berkeley study. (Image by Julius Csotonyi, courtesy of Science magazine)

How many T. rexes were there? Billions

New species of extinct dolphin sheds light on river dolphin history

Geology Page - September 10, 2014

Looking to fossils to predict tooth evolution in rodents

Geology Page - April 24, 2015

Inside the Head of a Dinosaur

Geology Page - March 28, 2013

Fossils turn out to be a rich source of information

Geology Page - February 10, 2016

Q&A: Will the fossil record preserve your computer?

Geology Page - June 23, 2014

Extinct kitten-sized hunter discovered

Geology Page - May 9, 2014

Human Evolution: A 24-million-year record of African plants plumbs deep past

Geology Page - June 7, 2016

Tiny plant fossils a window into Earth’s landscape millions of years...

Geology Page - January 15, 2015

Large theropod teeth found from the Upper Cretaceous of Jiangxi, Southern...

Geology Page - May 6, 2015

Fossils inform marine conservation

Geology Page - April 30, 2015

Counting calories in the fossil record

Geology Page - April 1, 2014

X-ray technology reveals a new bone in a very old fish

Geology Page - August 22, 2015

Was Darwinius a little longer in the tooth than previously thought?

Geology Page - September 13, 2015

Tiny fossils tell a long(ish) story

Geology Page - March 9, 2016

Animals first flex their muscles ” A new fossil discovery “

Geology Page - August 27, 2014

A new look at an old jaw clarifies mammal evolution

Geology Page - November 20, 2015

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Jaw mechanics of a shell-crushing Jurassic fish revealed

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New loriciferan from Japan: Wataloricus japonicus Credit: Shinta Fujimoto

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First ever digital geologic map of Alaska

Ordovician black shales of the Mount Hare Formation, Road River Group (approximately 465 million years old) rise above conglomerates of the Aberdeen Member. The dangerous rapids of Aberdeen Canyon (Nan Zhak Nadhàdlaii), created by the Peel River cutting through the resistant conglomerates, appear at bottom left. (Image credit: Erik Sperling)

Longest known continuous record of the Paleozoic discovered in Yukon wilderness