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Crocodile eat dinosaur meat
Archeology

Crocodile eat dinosaur meat

Hard feces like rock and strange bony bones help scientists reconstruct a 9m long prehistoric reptile: crocodile eating dinosaur meat.

December 17, 2018
The snake is as long as a bus
Archeology

The snake is as long as a bus

Scientists have found the fossil of the world's largest snake ever, the equivalent of a bus.

December 17, 2018
T. rex dinosaurs are real assassins
Archeology

T. rex dinosaurs are real assassins

A new study shows that Tyrannosaurus rex must rely on a quick nose to detect victims as well as defeat live prey at night.

December 17, 2018
New tiny human bones were discovered in Palau
Archeology

New tiny human bones were discovered in Palau

Thousands of human bones of many individuals have been discovered in the Pacific island nation of Palau. Some bones are quite ancient and show that people in this area h…

December 17, 2018
Detection of giant mouse fossils
Archeology

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.

December 17, 2018
Ancient scorpions are bigger than humans
Archeology

Ancient scorpions are bigger than humans

A giant fossilized fossil of a 2.5m long marine scorpion was discovered at a quarry in Germany. This 390 million-year-old creature may have lived in a river or swamp.

December 17, 2018
How do giant birds fly?
Archeology

How do giant birds fly?

With a span of more than 6 meters, a vulture of the same size as a Cessna plane had to rely on a 60km / hour glide to fly on the Argentine plains 6 million years ago.

December 17, 2018
Dinosaurs 'love' soon
Archeology

Dinosaurs 'love' soon

To find out when dinosaurs began sex, researchers at the American Museum of Natural History in New York and colleagues studied seven dinosaur fossils buried while hatchi…

December 17, 2018
Big dinosaurs have tiny genes
Archeology

Big dinosaurs have tiny genes

When studying the genome size of 31 extinct dinosaurs and birds, the researchers found that predators like T-rex have relatively small genomes.

December 17, 2018
The mouse weighs nearly 700kg
Archeology

The mouse weighs nearly 700kg

8 million years ago, in the South American region, there was a hamster breed with a large body like buffaloes and cows and was named Phoberomys pattersoni by scientists.…

December 17, 2018