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Reconstruction of Mollisonia plenovenatrix, by Joanna Liang ©Royal Ontario Museum
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Half-a-billion-year-old tiny predator unveils the rise of scorpions and spiders

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A reconstruction of Kamuysaurus japonicus. Credit: Kobayashi Y., et al, Scientific Reports, September 5, 2019
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A new duck-billed dinosaur, Kamuysaurus japonicus, identified

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A graphic thermal image of a T. rex with its dorsotemporal fenestra glowing on the skull. Illustration courtesy of Brian Engh.
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T. rex had an air conditioner in its head

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A fossilized trail of the animal Yilingia spiciformis, dating back 550 million years. The trail was found in China by a team of scientists including Shuhai Xiao of the Virginia Tech College of Science. Credit: Virginia Tech College of Science
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Ancient animal species: Fossils dating back 550 million years among first...

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The type specimen of Aenigmaspina pantyfynnonensis, photograph and 3D scan model, produced by Erin Patrick as part of her Masters thesis work in Bristol. This little block, the size of the palm of your hand, shows the backbone, curved round from top right to bottom left, and in the middle the ribs and shoulder blades. Scale bar is 1 cm. Credit: University of Bristol
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A new reptile species from Wales named by Bristol student

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A, photograph of Armoricaphyton chateaupannense preserved in 2D as carbonaceous thin films. B, SEM image of a transverse section of an axis of a specimen of A. chateaupannense preserved in 3D showing the radially aligned tracheids. Credit: Canadian Light Source
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Analyzing the world’s oldest woody plant fossil

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In-depth fossil analysis could help us understand the true functions of colour. Credit: Aline Dassel/Pixabay, licensed under Pixabay licence
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Fossil colour studies are changing our idea of how dinosaurs looked

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This photograph shows rocks from the Belcher Islands in Hudson Bay, Canada, from which doctoral candidate Malcolm Hodgskiss collected barite samples dating 2.02 to 1.87 billion years old. Credit: Malcolm Hodgskiss
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Ancient die-off greater than the dinosaur extinction

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The scans revealed many microscopic food remains including foraminifera (small amoeboid protists with external shells), small shells of marine invertebrates and possible remains of polychaete worms. Credit: Qvarnström mfl.
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Filter-feeding pterosaurs were the flamingos of the Late Jurassic

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An exceptional fossil skull of Chilecebus carrascoensis, a 20-million-year-old primate from the Andes mountains of Chile. Credit: © AMNH/N. Wong and M. Ellison
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20-million-year-old skull suggests complex brain evolution in monkeys, apes

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A Desmoceras fossil. A cephalopod that thrived in the early Cretaceous, 146 to 100 million years ago. Note the fossilized biomineral nacre or mother of pearl. Credit: Pupa Gilbert
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Making biominerals: Nature’s recipe is old, evolved more than once

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Fig. 1. 10 million-year-old fossil frog from Libros, Spain and X-ray map showing elevated levels of copper and zinc in the internal organs. Fossil photograph copyright the Natural History Museum, London. X-ray fluorescence map. Credit: Valentina Rossi
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Scientists discover new way to reconstruct what extinct animals looked like

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Head posture if the lateral (horizontal) semi-circular canal is parallel to the ground, in hatching (A), juvenile (B) and adult (C) Psittacosaurus lutjiatunensis. Images not to scale. Credit: Claire Bullar and IVPP.
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Dinosaur brains from baby to adult

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Canterbury Museum researcher Vanesa De Pietri (L) said the discovery reinforces the theory that penguins attained great size early in their evolution
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Giant penguin fossil found in New Zealand

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Reconstructions of lycopsid trees (Guangdedendron micrum). Left: juvenile plant. Right: adult plant. Credit: Zhenzhen Deng
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Researchers discover oldest fossil forest in Asia

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The 23-million-year-old bones of the newly-discovered giant, Simbakubwa kutokaafrika, had been left for nearly 40 years in a drawer
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Hidden mysteries lie in wait inside Kenya’s fossil treasury

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A flightless dinosaur called Similicaudipteryx uses its feathers in a mating display. U of A researchers looked at how such displays may have helped dinosaurs evolve feathers that eventually allowed them to fly. Credit: Sydney Mohr
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Sex appeal helped dinosaurs take flight

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Ngwevu intloko skull. Credit: Kimberley Chapelle
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New species of early dinosaur described from South Africa

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This fossilized tree leaf, is the first of their kind to have been found in the area. Alexandre Demers-Potvin, used the samples he collected to establish that Eastern Canada would have had a warm temperate and fully humid climate during the middle of Cretaceous period. Credit: Alexandre Demers-Potvin
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Newly discovered Labrador fossils give clues about ancient climate

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Reconstruction by Lars Fields. Credit: Lars Fields Royal Ontario Museum
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A voracious Cambrian predator, Cambroraster, is a new species from the...

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