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Ostracod crustaceans were entrapped in this tiny piece of Cretaceous amber found in Myanmar.
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The oldest known sperm cells

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Saturn's icy
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Process that might have led to first organic molecules

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Summary of major extinction events through time, highlighting the new, Carnian Pluvial Episode at 233 million years ago. Credit: D. Bonadonna/ MUSE, Trento
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Discovery of a new mass extinction

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The dawn crested penguin Eudyptes atatu in New Zealand, three million years ago. Image by Simone Giovanardi. Permission for use of the image for a press release is granted by the artist. Credit: Massey University
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Newly-described fossils reveal an ancient origin for New Zealand penguins

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Eurypterid specimen image: Images of the eurypterid specimen fossil that led to Lamsdell’s discovery. Credit: Melanie Hopkins Photo
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Coming up for air: Extinct sea scorpions could breathe out of...

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Researchers collected and analyzed permafrost from four sites in the Yukon to develop a new technique to tease ancient DNA from soil, pulling the genomes of hundreds of extinct animals and thousands of plants from less than a gram of sediment. Credit: Tyler Murchie/ McMaster University
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Thousands of species recorded in a speck of soil

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A huge mammoth graveyard has been uncovered at the site of Mexico City's new airport
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Mammoth graveyard unearthed at Mexico’s new airport

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Map illustrating the location of Kapi (black star) relative to modern (dark green) and historical (light green) populations of lesser apes and the approximate distribution of early fossil apes in East Africa (blue triangles). Green triangles mark the location of previously discovered fossil gibbons. The new fossil is millions of years older than any previously known fossil gibbon and highlights their migration from Africa to Asia. Credit: Luci Betti-Nash.
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New fossil ape discovered in India

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Palaeoartist reconstruction of a 16 m adult Megalodon. Credit: Reconstruction by Oliver E. Demuth
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True size of prehistoric mega-shark finally revealed

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Sauropod Embryo. Credit: University of Manchester
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Newly discovered rare dinosaur embryos show sauropods had rhino-like horns

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The largest and the smallest: dinosaurs reached an amazing range in size through the Mesozoic Era. Credit: Vitor Silva
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How to weigh a dinosaur

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Mukawaryu
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Using math to examine the sex differences in dinosaurs

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The fossil on the right is a complete specimen of Gyaltsenglossus senis (ROMIP 65606.1) showing full length of the proboscis with the six feeding arms at the top. Illustration by Emily S. Damstra. Both images © Royal Ontario Museum
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A Bizarre Half Billion-Year Old Worm with Tentacles Solves Evolutionary Mystery

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The Titanosaurian embryo skull along with a skull and head reconstruction. Credit: Kundrat et al. /Current Biology
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First 3D look at an embryonic sauropod dinosaur reveals unexpected facial...

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Life restoration of Lystrosaurus in a state of torpor. Credit: Crystal ShinLife restoration of Lystrosaurus in a state of torpor. Credit: Crystal Shin
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Fossil evidence of ‘hibernation-like’ state in 250-million-year-old Antarctic animal

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

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Closeup of the stomach area of a fossil ichthyosaur, Guizhouichthyosaurus, showing part of the body of another large marine reptile. The ichthyosaur had swallowed its prey shortly before it died and was fossilized. This is the oldest known direct evidence of megapredation, or a large animal eating another large animal. (Da-Yong Jiang, et al.)
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Ichthyosaur’s last meal is evidence of Triassic megapredation

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Vertebrae from the torso of the long-necked dinosaur "Arapahoe"
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How dinosaur research can help medicine

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Manakacha Trackway. Credit: Stephen Rowland
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Cliff collapse reveals 313-million-year-old fossil footprints in Grand Canyon National Park

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The structure of the trabecular, or spongy bone that forms in the interior of bones, is unique within dinosaurs, according to a recent study by SMU paleontologists and others.
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Dinosaurs’ unique bone structure key to carrying weight

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