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Ancient Armadillo

Ancient Armadillo The Size Of A Car Discovered By Farmer In...

A closeup view of the Flyby Trike’s occipital condyle bone — nicknamed the “trailer hitch” — the ball on the back of the skull that connects to neck vertebrae.Rachel Ormiston/Burke Museum/University of Washington

Four dinosaurs discovered in Montana

Titanokorys gainesi reconstruction. Illustration by Lars Fields, © Royal Ontario Museum.

Massive new animal species discovered in half-billion-year-old Burgess Shale

Artist’s depiction of an ornithopod dinosaur tending its nest.

Baby dinosaurs found in Australia

Chinese roadworkers unearth nest of Forty-Three fossilised dinosaur eggs

Giant extinct salmon fought with spike teeth during upriver spawning events

Comet

The comet that killed the dinosaurs

A penis in amber

An example of one of the microfossils discovered in a sample of rock recovered from the Apex Chert, a rock formation in western Australia that is among the oldest and best-preserved rock deposits in the world.

Oldest fossils ever found show life on Earth began before 3.5...

Trilobite

Articulated left tibia and pes

A new giant dinosaur gives insight into why many prehistoric meat-eaters...

The sauropod trackway

World’s Largest Dinosaur Tracks Were Discovered in the Jura Mountains

The 170 million-year-old tracks were made in a muddy lagoon off the north-east coast of what is now the Isle of Skye Credit: University of Edinburgh/PA Wire

World’s largest dinosaur found in Scotland

Stromatolites

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

Ancient die-off greater than the dinosaur extinction

Rare Dinosaur-Era Bird Wings Trapped in Amber

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

Most human origins stories are not compatible with known fossils

A 91-million-year-old fossil shark newly named Cretodus houghtonorum discovered in Kansas

Fossil dig leads to unexpected discovery of 91-million-year-old shark new to...

The first complete dinosaur skeleton ever identified has finally been studied in detail and found its place in the dinosaur family tree, completing a project that began more than a century and a half ago. Credit: John Sibbick

Scelidosaurus : First complete dinosaur skeleton ever found is ready for...

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