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Latest Cretaceous Dinosaurs Lived in Vibrant, Regionally Distinct Communities

Latest Cretaceous Dinosaurs Lived in Vibrant, Regionally Distinct Communities

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The most iconic mass extinction in Earth's history occurred about 66 million years ago, when rapid environmental destruction led to ...

Two New Specimens of Edmontosaurus annectens Preserve Fine Details of Scales and Hooves

Two New Specimens of Edmontosaurus annectens Preserve Fine Details of Scales and Hooves

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Paleontologists have examined two exceptional specimens of a duck-billed dinosaur from the late Cretaceous period. Edmontosaurus annextens. Using a range ...

Australia’s First Peoples Were Fossil Collectors, New Study Suggests

Australia’s First Peoples Were Fossil Collectors, New Study Suggests

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In a new study, University of New South Wales professor Mike Archer and colleagues re-examined a fossilized tibia (tibia bone) ...

Lead Exposure May Have Influenced Evolution of Human Brain, Behavior, and Development of Language

Lead Exposure May Have Influenced Evolution of Human Brain, Behavior, and Development of Language

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Several anthropoids – Australopithecus africanus, Strong Paranthropusearly homo sp., Gigantopithecus black, Pongo sp., Palso sp., Neanderthal manAnd wise man — ...

Two Jurassic Mammal Relatives Had Uniquely Shaped Jaw Joints

Two Jurassic Mammal Relatives Had Uniquely Shaped Jaw Joints

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The evolution of the modern mammal jaw is more complex than previously thought, according to a new analysis of fossils ...

Paleontologists Discover New Species of Triassic Long-Necked Dinosaur

Paleontologists Discover New Species of Triassic Long-Necked Dinosaur

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Paleontologists have discovered a new group of Triassic fossils at the Quebrada-Santo Domingo site in the Northern Precordillera basin in ...

New Species of Triassic Carnivorous Dinosaur Identified in Argentina

New Species of Triassic Carnivorous Dinosaur Identified in Argentina

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New genus and species of theropod dinosaurs named Anteavis crrilongus was described by a team of paleontologists from the National ...

Fossil of Long and Narrow-Snouted Ichthyosaur Uncovered in England

Fossil of Long and Narrow-Snouted Ichthyosaur Uncovered in England

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University of Manchester paleontologist Dean Lomax and his colleagues have identified a new genus and species of leptonectid ichthyosaur from ...

Paleontologists Identify New Species of Flat-Headed Herbivorous Dinosaur

Paleontologists Identify New Species of Flat-Headed Herbivorous Dinosaur

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The new clan and the types of the Khadrosaurids dinosaur, who lived in the Cretaceous period in the fact that ...

Ancestors of Modern Demosponges Were Earth’s First Animals: Study

Ancestors of Modern Demosponges Were Earth’s First Animals: Study

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Scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and in other places revealed chemical fossils, which were possibly left by ancient ...