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Detection of giant mouse fossils
An amateur paleontologist has just found in Uruguay the skull of a giant-sized prehistoric rat that lived about 4 million years ago.
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Injured dinosaur fossils provide lots of valuable information
A recently discovered fossil in China has provided scientists with a rare anatomical structure of dinosaurs. The grass Psittacosaurus has thick skin like shark skin that…
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Discovered fossilized bones migrating from Africa to Europe
Some fossil bones of human-like animals, about 1.8 million years old, have been found by scientists in the Republic of Georgia. This is the oldest fossil bone found outs…
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China: Discovering fossils of dragons
Who said dragons are fictional animals that exist only in legend? Since 1996, Chinese archaeologists have found the intact fossil skeleton of a dragon with two sharp hor…
Archeology
Dinosaurs dominate the earth slowly
The way to conquer the throne in the animal world of dinosaurs is longer than expected. They do not suddenly appear after the ancestors die, but in parallel exist and tr…
Archeology
Human ancestors are not smart
A monkey-like animal - considered the common ancestor of humans, human and monkey primates - is not as intelligent as people think. Scientists drew this when analyzing a…
Archeology
Swimming dinosaurs
Fossil footprints left by dinosaurs at the bottom of a river in northern Spain are a strong evidence that at least a few dinosaurs were excellent swimmers.
Archeology
Find identical dinosaurs ... chickens
One of the world's leading fossil hunters revealed a giant dinosaur shaped like a chicken. The result may change the evolutionary theory of prehistoric animals.
Archeology
Detection of giant dinosaur fossils in Spain
This may be the largest animal on Earth in the late Jurassic period 150 million years ago. Turiasaurus riodevensis with fossils found in Teruel (Spain) can weigh 40 to 4…
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Argentina: Discovering the footprint of an animal that lived 15,000 years ago
Paleontologists have discovered nine footprints of scelidotherium, a prehistoric animal that lived 15,000 years ago on Atlantic Ocean Monte Hermoso beach (Argentina).
Archeology
Ancient monsters chew on sharks
It was a 10-meter long sea creature, weighed 4 tons and had sharp teeth that opened suddenly with bite force of up to 5 tons. Animals can chew anything in the ocean into…
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Ancient animals fly like birds
Squirrel-like animals that live at the same time as dinosaurs at least 130 years ago may have dominated the sky like birds. That is the newly discovered Volaticotherium…
Archeology
Discovered an ancient snake-headed lizard
Argentine and American paleontologists have discovered fossils in the well-preserved condition of a newborn Plesiosauri that lived 70 million years ago in the South Pole.
Archeology
Australia: Fossilized a fish species dating back 380 million years
The researchers discovered in Australia the fossils of a medium-sized,
Archeology
The dinosaurs were re-infected with helminths
Each reigns over the earth and the ocean 75 million years ago, but dinosaurs still become the prey of those who live