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Discovered prehistoric beetles with scary jaws
Scientists have discovered fossils of giant beetles that were the terror of the waters in the period 400 million years ago.
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420 million-year-old armored fossil in China
Chinese scientists discovered a rare piece of fossil fish
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Discovered mysterious skull bones 400,000 years old in Portugal
A skull fossil dating back to about 400,000 years old discovered in Portugal is making scientists debate the ancestors of modern humans and human evolution.
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Fossil egg shells of ostriches confirm the theory of continental drift
Scientists have thus asserted in a study just published, the DNA test results in ostrich eggs confirmed some aspects of continental drift theory.
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China found fossils of sea monsters that lived before dinosaurs
In southwestern China, archaeologists have found fossils of an ancient long-lived marine species that lived millions of years ago.
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Reptiles are as big as dogs, with venom before snakes appear
Researchers have recently discovered mammal-like reptiles, which are about the same size as dogs, have venom earlier than snakes.
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There is evidence that sea monsters really existed
During the Jurassic period, while the dinosaurs were considered to be the hegemony of the Earth, the undersea actually existed a dolphin-like predator.
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Detecting tiny crocodiles in the rock, suspecting strange creatures
Langenberg quarry, Germany is famous for its rich marine marine fossil remains in the late Jurassic period. This time, the quarry must rely on the help of scientists to…
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Giant penguins may have lived at the same time as dinosaurs
Experts from the Canterbury Museum in New Zealand and the Senckenberg Institute in Frankfurt are currently studying the fossil skeleton believed to be the lower limb of…
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6 million years ago, this giant otter appeared on Earth
A new finding shows that the giant otter, about the size of modern wolves, used to live in China's wetlands 6 million years ago.
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Bird fossils 90 million years help predict the future of the Earth
Scientists discovered the 90-million-year-old fossil of a new winged bird over a meter long and sharp teeth in Canada's Arctic region.
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The 700,000-year fossil suspected to be 'precious' mammoth
An Englishman found a 6.4cm-long penis fossil likely to belong to a mammoth that lived 700,000 years ago.
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Biological fossil discovery 545 million years ago
Scientists from the Argentine Geological Research Center (CIG) have found fossils of living organisms that lived 545 million years ago in the city of Olavarría.
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Fossil 'hybrid' elephant and three million year old horse
A team found fossils of animals 1.5m taller, weighing about 500kg, shaped in a mixture of horses and elephants.
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Clean-falling dinosaur teeth when grown up
The small and sharp teeth of the Limusaurus dinosaur, which lived in northwestern China 160 million years ago, disappeared when they mature.