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Man notices ancient human jawbone embedded in parents' tile floor
A Reddit user got the surprise of a lifetime when they noticed a human-like jawbone embedded in the new travertine flooring at their parents' house.
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Newfound "King of Gore" Dinosaur Ruled Before T. Rex
A newly discovered "King of Gore" tyrannosaur pushes back the origins of T. rex's terrifying family tree to at least 80 million years ago, report paleontologists.
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Mysteriously Intact T. Rex Tissue Finally Explained
The controversial discovery of 68-million-year-old soft tissue from the bones of a Tyrannosaurus rex finally has a physical explanation. According to new research, iron in the dinosaur's body preserved the tissue before it could decay.
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Horse Fossils Confirm New Species on Earth 4.4 Million Years Ago
A new horse species, which roamed the Earth approximately 4.4 million years ago, has been discovered from fossils found in Ethiopia, scientists are reporting. Scott Simpson, who is a professor of anatomy at Case Western School of Medicine, and is also one of the chief scientists over this research study, stated that the horse fossils that were discovered were only a few pieces of an extremely complex puzzle which included many parts.
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Neanderthal Genes Live On In Our Hair And Skin
Neanderthals died out long ago, but their genes live on in us. Scientists studying human chromosomes say they've discovered a surprising amount of Neanderthal DNA in our genes. And these aren't just random fragments; they help shape what we look like today, including our hair and skin.
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Fossil shows an ancient reptile in the act of being born
Scientists have discovered the fossil remains of an ancient marine reptile in the act of being born.
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Taking the Kids - five places to get up close and personal to dinosaurs
The teenage boys couldn't resist posing for selfies with the stars of the show. It didn't matter that these stars were the famous dinosaur fossils at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. If you think kids outgrow dinosaurs by kindergarten, think again. "The dinosaurs were amazing. It is astounding that these creatures once roamed the Earth," said Khaliq Sanda, a high school senior.
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Modern sharks are sleeker, faster than their ancestors, fossil find suggests
Sharks turn out to be more modern and sleek than anyone had ever imagined, given a new study that negates a prior theory that today’s sharks are “living fossils,” changing little over time.
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New Tyrannosaur named 'Pinocchio rex'
A new type of Tyrannosaur with a very long nose has been nicknamed "Pinocchio rex". The ferocious carnivore, nine metres long with a distinctive horny snout, was a cousin of Tyrannosaurus rex. Its skeleton was dug up in a Chinese construction site and identified by scientists at Edinburgh University, UK.
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World's oldest sperm found in Australian fossil
The world's oldest and best preserved sperm has been discovered in 17 million-year-old fossils unearthed in far north Queensland. The sperm of an ancient species of freshwater shrimp, which were found inside a rock taken from the Riversleigh World Heritage area, were not only hardy, but huge compared to the animal's body size. The not-so-little swimmers were as long as the crustacean itself, which was only a couple of millimetres in length.
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Dinosaurs Found in Mass Grave Died of Drought
The case was cold, but critical clues pointed to a killer's identity in ancient Madagascar
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World’s largest four-winged dinosaur discovered — and it has massive feathers
In the dinosaur kingdom, the raptor reigns as a pop-culture bogeyman. While not as big as the T. Rex, the feathered creature had a mean set of teeth and claws. But there was at least one refuge from its tyranny: the air.
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The man who saved the dinosaurs
Dinosaurs were lumbering, stupid, scientifically boring beasts—until John Ostrom rewrote the book on them.
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'Bad luck' ensured that asteroid impact wiped out dinosaurs
Dinosaurs were wiped out by an asteroid impact when they were at their most vulnerable, according to a new study. Dr Steve Brusatte, of Edinburgh University, said sea level rises and volcanic activity had made many species more susceptible to extinction. They might have survived if the asteroid had hit the Earth a few million years later or earlier, he said, calling it "colossal bad luck".
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New Titanosaur unearthed in Tanzania
Paleontologists at Ohio University have unearthed the partial skeleton of an entirely new species of titanosaur – the massive herbivores that were the largest animals ever to walk on the planet.
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Dinosaur predator bigger than T-rex found
The biggest-known dinosaur predator to stalk the planet earth looked rather like a monster daschund, but with 7-meter tall spines on its back.
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Tooth of Giant 220-million-year-old Reptile Proves Predators Fought Across Land and Sea
The tooth of a 220-million-year-old semi-aquatic phytosaur has been found embedded in the thigh bone of a terrestrial rauisuchid. Both are giant prehistoric reptiles distantly related to the modern crocodile.
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Fossilised bite marks show how ancient reptiles battled across land and water
Some 220m years ago, the Triassic Period marked the beginning of the age of dinosaurs. But by the time the earliest dinosaurs were just starting to appear in the fossil record, it was distant relatives of crocodiles that reigned over both the water and land.
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50 years after finding its giant arms, scientists have put this strange dinosaur’s pieces together
A long-mysterious dinosaur now has a nearly complete skeleton, revealing a form much more unusual than scientists had predicted.
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'Missing' disaster led to all-time worst extinction
There were thought to be five mass extinctions in Earth history. Fossil evidence is now pointing to a sixth – and it's not the human-made Anthropocene
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