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Rare Jurassic fossils discovered near Lake Powell

PALEONTOLOGY
While documenting fossil tracksites along a stretch of Lake Powell, a Glen Canyon National Recreation Area (Glen Canyon NRA) field crew discovered the first...

New South American site reveals extraordinary fossils from the end of the age of the dinosaurs

PALEONTOLOGY
The discovery of a spectacular fossil site in Argentina is helping shed new light on life at the end of the Cretaceous, the time...

Race to find world’s oldest mammal fossils led to academic warfare in the 1970s

PALEONTOLOGY
The hunt for the world's most ancient mammals descended into academic warfare in the 1970s, researchers from the University of Bristol have discovered. In a study published...

Fossils show widespread plant extinctions after asteroid wiped out dinosaurs

PALEONTOLOGY
Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid the size of San Francisco crashed into a shallow sea off the coast of modern-day Mexico and plunged...

Fossils in Morocco reveal the astounding diversity of marine life 66 million years ago, just before the asteroid hit

PALEONTOLOGY
Sixty-six million years ago, the Cretaceous period ended. Dinosaurs disappeared, along with around 90% of all species on Earth. The patterns and causes of...

Newly discovered Jurassic fossils in Texas

PALEONTOLOGY
A team led by scientists at The University of Texas at Austin has filled a major gap in the state’s fossil record — describing...

Glowing fossils: Fluorescence reveals color patterns of earliest scallops

PALEONTOLOGY
UV light makes it possible to see intricate structures of fossils that are barely visible in normal daylight. This method has often been used...

500 million year-old fossils reveal answer to evolutionary riddle

PALEONTOLOGY
The first animals to build hard and robust skeletons appear suddenly in the fossil record in a geological blink of an eye around 550-520...

Fossils of giant sea lizard that ruled the oceans 66 million years ago discovered

PALEONTOLOGY
Researchers have discovered a huge new mosasaur from Morocco, named Thalassotitan atrox, which filled the apex predator niche. With massive jaws and teeth like...

World’s oldest known case of cannibalism revealed in trilobite fossils

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The trilobite Redlichia rex likely chomped on its own kind. It's a dog-eat-dog world out there. But before there were dogs — or even dinosaurs...
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