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Brazil fossil lost for 20 years helps identify new reptile species from 240 million years agoA fossil fragment that disappeared for around two decades has helped scientists identify a previously unknown reptile that lived about 240 million years ago long before dinosaurs came to dominate the ...
The ancient reptile has just two living relatives, both of which are endangered ...
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Skull of an extinct crocodile found in the rocks used to build the Sphinx and the Pyramids turns out to be a new speciesTens of millions of years before the Ancient Egyptians erected their iconic monuments, the quarry from which they extracted ...
Reconstruction of a juvenile Huphsuchus in its natural habitat Photo: Courtesy of Hubei Institute of Geosciences. An ...
CT scans helped determine that the fossil unearthed in Egypt came from a distinctly different ancient species.
A 245-million-year-old marine reptile fossil preserves an astonishing amount of detail, including its stomach, liver, and intestines. The discovery reveals that Austronaga minuta was highly adapted ...
Around 309 million years ago, long before the dinosaurs, the area around Chicago was a swampy river delta swarming with early land-dwelling animals, giant insects and strange swimming animals. What ...
One of the oldest known 3D fossils of an animal has been discovered in a sheep field in the Norwegian Arctic, the first new major site of its kind anywhere in Europe in decades. The fossil dates from ...
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