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The Complete History of the Earth
Paleo Analysis
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Fossil of ‘earliest animal predator’ is named after David Attenborough
Sea creature, thought to have used tentacles to capture food, is named Auroralumina attenboroughii
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Rise of the dinosaurs traced back to their adaptation to cold
Covering of feathers left them able to cope when other creatures died off in mass extinction event, scientists say
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‘Fish lizard’ fossils found in Swiss Alps showcase some of the largest creatures to ever live
Long-extinct "fish lizards" first appeared in the ocean about 250 million years ago, and their fossils were found high in the Swiss Alps. According to a study published Thursday in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, the fossil discovery of the marine reptile carnivores, known as ichthyosaurs, make them some the largest creatures to ever live on Earth – even bigger than sperm whales and on par with dinosaurs – given that they weighed about 80 tons and spanned 65 feet.
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Mammals’ bodies outpaced their brains right after the dinosaurs died
Fossils show that mammals’ brains and bodies did not balloon together. The animals’ brains grew bigger later.
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Mystery owner of Stan the T rex finally revealed following $31.8m auction
Paleontologists celebrate ‘happy ending’ as Abu Dhabi museum is revealed as owner, after fearing implications of sale to secret buyer
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Paleontology ‘a hotbed of unethical practices rooted in colonialism’, say scientists
The study of fossils and prehistoric species is exploitative of local communities, says international team
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Why One Extraordinary Collection of Dinosaur Embryos Remains Locked Away From Science
Self-taught fossil specialist Terry Manning uncovered his first dinosaur embryo from an ancient egg in 1993. More than 30 embryos and nearly three decades later, hardly anyone has laid eyes or hands on his rare specimens.
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Mind-Blowing New Fossil Site Found in The 'Dead' Heart of Australia
The arid heart of Australia may not easily support life now, but once, many aeons ago, it was lush and teeming. What is now arid desert and dry shrub- and grasslands was once thick with dense forests, alive with life.
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Scientists find perfectly preserved dinosaur embryo preparing to hatch like a bird
At least 66m-year-old fossil discovered in southern China reveals posture previously unseen in dinosaurs
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New Fossil Shows Ancient Human Relative "Walked Like Humans And Climbed Like Apes"
An international team of scientists from New York University, the University of the Witwatersrand and 15 other institutions announced today in the open-access journal eLife the discovery of ...
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This is the oldest fossil evidence of spider moms taking care of their young
Her corpse, preserved alongside her offspring in amber for 99 million years, is the oldest physical evidence for maternal care in spiders, says Paul Selden, an invertebrate paleontologist at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. This fossil is one of four showing that some ancient spiders guarded their egg sacs and may even have raised their young, Seldon and his colleagues report September 15 in Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
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Scientists discover new dinosaur species with ‘bizarre’ spiky armour
Spikes in this ankylosaur is peculiar since it is fused to the rib bones and not growing out from skin
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The World's Oldest Known Forest Was Not Like We Imagined, New Study Shows
The fossilized web of a 385-million-year-old root network has scientists reimagining what the world's first forests might once have looked like.
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480 million-year-old fossil spores from Western Australia record how ancient plants spread to land
When plants started growing on land, they changed the world. Ancient fossil spores hint at how and when they did it.
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A scientist unearths potential evidence for the earliest animal life
Scientist Elizabeth Turner found fossilized evidence of 890-million-year-old sponges. These are possibly the earliest known evidence of animal life on Earth.
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Scientists say new dinosaur species is largest found in Australia
Scientists in Australia have classified a new species of dinosaur, discovered in 2007, as the largest ever found on the continent. The Australotitan cooperensis or "the southern titan", is among the 15 largest dinosaurs found worldwide. Experts said the titanosaur would have been up to 6.5m (21ft) tall and 30m long, or "as long as a basketball court".
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Dinosaurs once flourished near the North Pole
The bones of their young suggest they were permanent residents, not migrants | Science & technology
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New dinosaur species found in Australia was as long as a basketball court
Paleontologists classified a new species of sauropod that now ranks as Australia's largest dinosaur. The species was known as Australotitan cooperensis.
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10 Lies Answers in Genesis Tells About Lucy
Donald Johanson’s book Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind was what first made me fall in love with paleoanthropology. While I have learned about dozens more fossils over the last two years, I still have a special place in my heart for Lucy. So you can imagine how excited I was to defend her from the lies of the young-earth creationists at Answers in Genesis! I once might not have known how to debunk their claims, but I now have the knowledge, the books, and a little bit of money needed to find so many errors in their articles.
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