Tagged With Fossils

From mammoth teeth, scientists just pulled DNA that's more than 1 million years old - the oldest DNA ever found

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New analysis of a saber-toothed cat fossil reveals the ancient animals were ruthless, highly skilled hunters

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Megalodons may have grown to the size of school buses by eating their shark siblings in the womb, new research suggests

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The carcass of an extinct cave bear thought to be over 22,000 years old was discovered in remote Siberia — the only find of its kind

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Explorers in Antarctica found the largest soft-shelled egg ever seen. It may have come from an ancient reptile that preyed on sharks.

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Early dinosaurs laid leathery, soft-shelled eggs, new research shows — shattering our understanding of dinosaur evolution

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Mysterious fossilized footprints reveal that ancient crocodile ancestors walked on two legs

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A rare fossil preserved a squid attack from 200 million years ago — the squid ancestor viciously crushed the head of a prehistoric fish

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A handful of recent discoveries have shattered anthropologists' picture of where humans came from, and when

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The 'Jurassic Park' franchise got many dinosaurs wrong. The venomous Dilophosaurus was actually 20 feet long and poison-free.

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Paleontologists are unravelling the mysteries of young T. rexes. Creatures they thought were 2 species turned out to be kids and adults.

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A group of our Homo erectus ancestors suffered a mysterious mass death more than 107,000 years ago. It's their last appearance in the fossil record.

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A pair of infant skeletons were found wearing other children's skulls as helmets in a 2,000-year-old grave site

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Every person alive today descended from a woman who lived in modern-day Botswana about 200,000 years ago, a new study finds

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The T. Rex had the strongest bite of any land animal ever — and new research shows the dinosaur really could crush a car

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More than 40,000 years ago, giant kangaroos roamed Australia. Their jaws were surprisingly similar to those of pandas, a new study found.

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Scientists may have discovered a new human species. It lived on a tiny island in the Philippines at the same time as Homo sapiens.

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So many animals are going extinct it could take Earth 10 million years to recover, scientists say

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Nibbled-on bones found in a cave revealed that our Neanderthal ancestors ate each other. Scientists may have figured out why.

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Paleontologists have discovered an ancient whale that had four legs and could walk on land

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