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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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Microscopic eggs of fish tapeworm (left), giant kidney worm (centre), and Echinostoma worm (right) from the Must Farm excavation. Black scale bar represents 20 micrometres. Credit: Marissa Ledger
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Ancient feces reveal how ‘marsh diet’ left Bronze Age Fen folk...

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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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Scientists say the femur might have belonged to a gigantic sauropod. Credit: AFP / GEORGES GOBET
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Colossal dinosaur bone find in France thrills scientists

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These fossil-rich sediments along the Alto Madre de Dios River in southern Peru have yielded hundreds of fossil teeth and bones, clues to what life in the Amazon was like 18 million years ago.
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World’s smallest fossil monkey found in Amazon jungle

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The fossil of Microdocodon gracilis is preserved in two rock slabs, found in a site near the Wuhua village in the Daohugou area of Inner Mongolia, China. Credit: Zhe-Xi Luo
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Jurassic fossil shows how early mammals could swallow like their modern...

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Aquilarhinus palimentus, or ‘shovel-chinned eagle nose’. Illustration by ICRA Art
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Strange new species of duck-billed dinosaur identified

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An artist’s rendering of Auroraceratops shows its bipedal posture as well as the beak and frill that characterize it as a member of the horned dinosaurs. Paleontologists from Penn led a team in characterizing this species, discovered in China
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Small horned dinosaur from China, a Triceratops relative, walked on two...

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