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94-Million-Year-Old Mosasaur Fossil Discovered in Southern Utah

Dr. Barry Albright, a faculty member at the University of North Florida, has participated in a research project led by the Bureau of Land...

Olympicetus Thalassodon: Unveiling the Mysterious Ancestors of Dolphins

A groundbreaking discovery in paleontology has unveiled the remarkable secrets of the earliest ancestors of today's dolphins. Meet Olympicetus thalassodon, a fascinating new species of...

First evidence found of a dinosaur eating a mammal

An international team of scientists has discovered the first evidence of a dinosaur devouring a mammal. The group re-examined a fossil that was discovered...

Analysis of giant extinct marine reptile graveyard suggests mysterious site was ancient birthing ground

Today's marine giants are blue and humpback whales. They routinely make massive migrations across the ocean to breed and give birth in waters where...

Wildfires may have sparked ecosystem collapse during Earth’s worst mass extinction

Researchers from University College Cork (UCC) and the Swedish Museum of Natural History studied the end-Permian mass extinction (252 million years ago), which wiped...

Mastodon tusk chemical analysis reveals the first evidence of one extinct animal’s annual migration

According to the first study to document the annual migration of an individual animal from an extinct species, a roving male mastodon died in...

Researchers found bizarre meat-eating dinosaur fossil in Egypt’s Sahara desert

An Egyptian-American study team has discovered a new type of large-bodied meat-eating dinosaur, known as a theropod, at a well-known fossil site in Egypt's...

Scientists found Ankylosaur was sluggish and deaf

Scientists from Germany and Austria took a closer look at the braincase of a dinosaur from Austria. Scientists investigated the fossil with a micro-CT....

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