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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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When carbon emissions pass a critical threshold, it can trigger a spike-like reflex in the carbon cycle, in the form of severe ocean acidification that lasts for 10,000 years, according to a new MIT study.
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Breaching a ‘carbon threshold’ could lead to mass extinction

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This 2.1-billion-year-old sediment from a clay formation in Gabon has high concentrations of potassium, which could only have been caused by ancient microbes, according to new research.
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Scientists develop new method for studying early life in ancient rocks

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Calcified plankton dating from 95 million years ago (images captured in the Plymouth Electron Microscopy Centre)
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Evolution of life in the ocean changed 170 million years ago

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Crittendeceratops
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When the dinosaurs died, lichens thrived

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Illustration of marine fossils that have existed since the Cambrian. Represented taxa include brachiopods, trilobites, ammonites, bivalves, and decapods.
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A new normal: Study explains universal pattern in fossil record

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Fragment of Tarbosaurus lower jaw with teeth sampled (white stripes on tooth enamel)
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Tooth enamel analyses offer insights into the diet and habitat of...

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Eocoracias brachyptera fossil sample used for this study.
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Blue color tones in fossilized prehistoric feathers

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A hitherto unknown type of carnivorous dinosaur measuring just over a meter and a half long that lived 90 million years ago has been identified in the Cruzeiro do Oeste municipality of southern Brazil
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Desert-dwelling carnivorous dinosaur found in Brazil

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Artist’s reconstruction of Isisfordia molnari.
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The ancient croc that preyed on dinosaurs

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An artists impression of a Redlichia trilobite on the Cambrian seafloor.
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New ‘king’ of fossils discovered on Kangaroo Island

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The fossilized remains of Dickinsonia found at the Nilpena Heritage site in Australia. Credit: Scott Evans / UCR
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Some of Earth’s oldest animals could take trips

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