Fossils
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BIRDS
New fossils show what Australia’s giant prehistoric ‘thunder birds’ looked like
Several newly described fossils of Genyornis newtoni including a complete skull, and a separate upper beak and quadrate. Diagram not…
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CATS
5 million-year-old fossils reveal 2 new species of saber-toothed cats in South Africa
An artist’s impression of a saber-toothed cat in the genus Smilodon. (Image credit: Shutterstock) Scientists have unearthed the remains of…
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FISH
Oldest ‘fish-lizard’ fossils ever discovered suggests these sea monsters survived the ‘Nice Dying’
An artist’s interpretation of what the not too long ago found ichthyosaur might have regarded like. (Picture credit score: Esther…
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FISH
‘By no means noticed the rest find it irresistible’: Impeccably preserved Jurassic fish fossils discovered on UK farm
A farm in England was once the not going supply of a Jurassic jackpot: a treasure trove of 183 million-year-old…
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FISH
Fossils: Hundreds of worm faecal pellets found inside a 9 MILLION-year-old fish skull
Palaeontologists have found a 10 million-year-old fossil fish cranium loaded with hundreds of ‘wonderfully shaped’ faecal pellets still left by…
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