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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Rainbow Cave, Hormuz Island, Iran
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Rainbow Cave, Hormuz Island, Iran

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A lava fountain during the 1959 eruption of Kilauea Iki. Credit: USGS
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Crystals may help reveal hidden Kilauea Volcano behavior

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