Wealthy Collectors Are Snatching Up T. Rex Fossils, Leaving Scientists Behind
Tyrannosaurus rex may be the most famous dinosaur to ever roam the Earth, but these days, it’s at the center…
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Giant, Ancient Life Form Doesn’t Fit Into Any Known Branch of Life
Hundreds of millions of years ago, mysterious life forms called Prototaxites towered toward the sky. Believed to be the first…
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Immaculate Feather Fossil Reveals the Unlikely Preserving Power of Volcanoes
Fossilized feathers discovered 136 years ago are still revealing new secrets. Researchers found that the volcanic rock preserving the feather…
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‘Old Stump’ in Texas Turns Out to Be Incredibly Rare Mammoth Tusk
While hunting in West Texas, a deer hunter spotted a strange object in a creek bed. Suspecting it might be…
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Some Megalodons Reached 80 Feet—But They Weren’t Built Like Great Whites, Research Suggests
15 million years before movies like Jaws and Open Water gave swimmers the heebie-jeebies, a prehistoric shark species called Otodus…
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Yep, That’s 66-Million-Year-Old Vomit
Paleontologists in Denmark found a once-gloopy, now-hardened mess that they believe was spat up by a Cretaceous-era fish. Humans aren’t…
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Paleontologists Claim to Have Discovered Terrifying New Dinosaur Species in Pre-WWII Photographs
Paleontologists might have discovered a new dinosaur species—even though its fossil doesn’t exist anymore. Researchers in Munich, Germany, claim to…
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