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Several types of dinoflagellates are shown in this microscope image. Some dinoflagellates are classified as nanoplankton, which new research shows have a more important role in Earth’s biological pump than previously thought. Credit: fickleandfreckled, CC BY 2.0
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The Role of Midsized Phytoplankton in Earth’s Biological Pump

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Professor Cathryn Newton studies Middle Devonian marine faunas (such as these brachiopods from 380-390 million years ago), whose fossils are lodged in a unit of bedrock in Central New York. Credit: Syracuse University
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Diving into Devonian seas: Ancient marine faunas unlock secrets of warming...

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The newly named trace fossil Glossifungites gingrasi is a collection of burrows that were home to water-dwelling insects, similar to mayflies, more than 90 million years ago. (Photo: Ryan King)
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Newly discovered fossil, likely subaqueous insect

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Life reconstruction of a Spinosaurus wading in the water and fishing. Credit: Robert Nicholls ©Nicholls2020
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New light shed on behavior of giant carnivorous dinosaur Spinosaurus

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Image of archaea. Credit: Steve Gschmeissner/Science Photo Library
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Using 100-million-year-old fossils and gravitational-wave science to predict Earth’s future climate

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The scientists examined more than 3,500 fossils to identify survivor pairs - plants that grew in both the Cretaceous and Paleogene periods. The two fossils on the left are from the Cretaceous, and the two on the right are from the Paleogene. Credit: Elena Stiles
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Leaf fossils show severe end-Cretaceous plant extinction in southern Argentina

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Researcher overlooking one of the two field sites for the study, the Frenchman Valley in Chambery Coulee Saskatchewan in July 2017. Credit: McGill University
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When dinosaurs disappeared, forests thrived

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2D Life reconstruction Atuchin. Credit: © Andrey Atuchin
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The ‘crazy beast’ that lived among the dinosaurs

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Ubirajara jubatus is named after a Tupi Indian name for 'lord of the spear', in reference to the creature's stiffened, elongate integumentary structures, and jubatus from the Latin meaning 'maned' or 'crested'. Image must be credited Credit: Artwork © Bob Nicholls / Paleocreations.com 2020
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New dinosaur showed descendants how to dress to impress

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The head and body of the Messel python are almost completely preserved. Credit: Hessian State Museum Darmstadt
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World’s earliest python identified from 47 million-year-old fossil remains

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Part of a jawbone of the 422-million-year-old fossil bony fish Lophosteus, visualized with a high-resolution X-ray technique. On the right, the surface of the jawbone is shown in gray. In the middle, exposed teeth are highlighted in gold and dermal odontodes in shades of purple, pink and red. On the left, the bone itself is made transparent, revealing internal blood vessels and pulp cavities, shown in blue and green, as well as the embedded teeth and dermal odontodes. Credit: Chen et al. (CC BY 4.0)
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Primitive fish fossils reveal developmental origins of teeth

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Braincase and endocast of Thecodontosaurus antiquus. From CT scans of the braincase fossil, 3-D models of the braincase and the endocast were generated and studied. Credit: Created by Antonio Ballell with BioRender, Thecodontosaurus silhouette from PhyloPic.org.
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Research reveals unexpected insights into early dinosaur’s brain, eating habits and...

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Illustration shows a cross section of the prehistoric iguana burrow, and how the surrounding landscape may have looked during the Late Pleistocene Epoch. Credit: Anthony Martin.
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First-known fossil iguana burrow found in the Bahamas

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Illustration of Thalassodraco etchesi. Credit: Megan Jacobs
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Prehistoric ‘sea dragon’ discovered on English Channel Coast is identified as...

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A partial skeleton of Lagerpeton (hips, leg, and vertebrae) from ~235 million years from Argentina. Further examination of this specimen helped tie features of lagerpetids to pterosaurs. Photo courtesy of Sterling Nesbitt. Credit: Virginia Tech
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Paleontologists find pterosaur precursors that fill a gap in early evolutionary...

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Remnants of feather sheaths on the wings of the fossil bird Archaeopteryx, shows the earliest evidence of a complex moulting strategy. The white arrows indicate the feather sheaths. Scale bar is 1 cm. Credit: Kaye et al. 2020.
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Archaeopteryx fossil provides insights into the origins of flight

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Representative Image: Holotype of Onychonycteris finneyi
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Researchers discover 16 million-year-old bat fossil

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An artist's reconstruction of 'Anomalocaris' briggsi swimming within the twilight zone. Credit: Katrina Kenny
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Incredible vision in ancient marine creatures drove an evolutionary arms race

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New loriciferan from Japan: Wataloricus japonicus Credit: Shinta Fujimoto
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A New Species of Rare Phylum Loricifera Discovered in the Deep-sea...

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Illustration of the Jurassic thyreophoran Scelidosaurus harrisonii, Jack Mayer Wood, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Only dinosaurs found in ireland described for the first time

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