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University of Tsukuba researchers have described a new apex predator from the lower Upper Cretaceous of Central Asia, Ulughbegsaurus uzbekistanensis, which coexisted with a smaller tyrannosauroid
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Who was king before Tyrannosaurus? Uzbek fossil reveals new top dino

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Titanokorys gainesi reconstruction. Illustration by Lars Fields, © Royal Ontario Museum.
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Massive new animal species discovered in half-billion-year-old Burgess Shale

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Entombed in limestone blocks, the newly studied fossil is the first nearly complete skeleton of a pterosaur species that was first described in 2003. Photograph by Victor Beccari
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Confiscated fossil turns out to be exceptional flying reptile from Brazil

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Core samples for Oceanic Anoxic Event 1a. Credit: Elisabetta Erba.
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Volcanism drove rapid ocean deoxygenation during the time of the dinosaurs

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Skull fossils of amphibian. Credit: Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago
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Skull of 340 million year old animal digitally recreated, revealing secrets...

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Two fossils of Brooksella alternata.
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Icy waters of ‘Snowball Earth’ may have spurred early organisms to...

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Fossilised Squalicorax tooth Nr. #07815 from the Jerusalem site. Credit: Omri Lernau
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The City of David and the sharks’ teeth mystery

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Chuandianella ovata, an extinct shrimp-like crustacean.
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Paleonursery offers rare, detailed glimpse at life 518 million years ago

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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)
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Longest known continuous record of the Paleozoic discovered in Yukon wilderness

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Upper molar of Altaynycteris aurora. Credit: Li Qiang
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Researchers detail the most ancient bat fossil ever discovered in Asia

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Uskiella spargen a small plant whose axes divide several times before bearing oval sporangia. Credit : Cyrille Prestianni
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Discovery of the oldest plant fossils on the African continent!

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Early lineages of mammal like this large Gobiconodon from Mongolia, outcompeted the ancestors of modern mammals in the time of dinosaurs. Credit: Corbin Rainbolt
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Mammals in the time of dinosaurs held each other back

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A cross-section of an 18.5 million-year-old fossil of Ampelorhiza heteroxylon. Credit: Nathan Jud/Provided
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18.5 million year old vine fossil identified as new species

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Hesperornis image provided by the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. (Photo: Robert Lorenz)Hesperornis image provided by the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. (Photo: Robert Lorenz)
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What can a dinosaur’s inner ear tell us? Just listen

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The last common ancestor of chimpanzees and humans represents the starting point of human and chimpanzee evolution. Fossil apes play an essential role when it comes to reconstructing the nature of our ape ancestry. Printed with permission from © Christopher M. Smith
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Most human origins stories are not compatible with known fossils

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An enhanced image of Bicellum showing an outer wall of sausage-shaped cells enclosing an inner cell mass. Credit: Boston College
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Microfossil found in Scottish Highlands could be a new insight into...

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"Hollywood" specimen, same species as Teratophoneus, discovered approximately two miles north of the "Rainbows and Unicorns Quarry" on Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. Credit: U.S. Bureau of Land Management
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Fearsome tyrannosaurs were social animals, study shows

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Illustration showing how the three new species of fossil cloud rats might have looked. Credit: © Velizar Simeonovski, Field Museum.
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Fossils of ‘giant cloud rats’ discovered in Philippine caves

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Rafinesquina, seen in this close-up shot, was an ancient genus of brachiopod belonging to order Strophomenida. This order survived two mass extinction events, but the second represented a ‘death sentence’ from which they were unable to recover diversity, persisting for another hundred million years as a ‘dead clade walking’ before their eventual extinction. IMAGE: Provided by Benjamin Barnes
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New insights into mass extinctions

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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)
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How many T. rexes were there? Billions

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