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Discovered the oldest armored dinosaur in Asia
Fossils in Yunnan, China reveal a never-before-seen armored dinosaur that lived 179 - 192 million years ago.
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Another mystery of the sacred Mexican temple challenges the scientific world
Recently, Mexican scientists discovered for the first time an almost complete fossil of a starfish at the world famous Aztec temple in Mexico City.
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The oldest dinosaur species in Asia has been identified
Chinese and British paleontologists have identified a new species of dinosaur from the genus Stegosaur in China.
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The oldest species of 'vampire squid' is named after US President Joe Biden
Analysis of 328 million-year-old fossils from the US reveals a previously unknown species of vampire squid with up to 10 tentacles.
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'Crocodile hybrid' 240 million years old: Each tooth is a knife
One of the most terrifying beasts of its time, recently identified from fossils unearthed in Tanzania, is an archosaur, a group of crocodile-like reptiles of the Triassi…
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Found 95 million-year-old fossils of 'terrible' crocodiles that eat dinosaurs
Australian scientists have found fossils of a new species of crocodile that still has its last meal in its stomach, the carcass of ornithopods.
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Shocking fossils: Having the same problems as humans, super beasts die painfully
The 150-million-year-old fossil has revealed the unexpected cause that could knock down one of the biggest super beasts on the planet.
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Found a flower intact in 99 million years of amber
Paleontologists have discovered two extremely rare fossil flowers inside Cretaceous amber found under dinosaur footprints.
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100-million-year-old amber discovered containing 'insects pretending to be ants'
Chinese scientists have discovered a prehistoric insect from Cretaceous amber that shows the earliest ant-mimicking behavior.
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The mystery that once made Charles Darwin a headache is solved after 140 years
The mystery that once baffled famous scientist Charles Darwin has been solved 140 years after his death.
Archeology
World history is turned upside down because of the world's oldest fossil of a wise man
The secret of Omo I, fossil remains unearthed among volcanic ash in Ethiopia in 1960, has just been deciphered by scientists.
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The mystery of the fossil man in the mine: different species, 130,000 years old
New research has solved the nearly three-decade mystery of a strange fossil man found in a calcite mineral deposit in a cave system near Altamura (Italy).
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When the ground was too boring, this 'monster' began to learn the ancestors of whales and went to the sea to live.
They are large mammals, appearing 7 million years ago, but after 4 million years, they completely disappeared because of changes in the environment.
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Dinosaurs intact inside a 70-million-year-old egg
The shocking discovery of a perfectly preserved baby dinosaur embryo, curled inside an egg.
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Discovered an ancient fossil as big as a crocodile
A team of paleontologists has released a giant millipede fossil, found on a beach in England in 2018.