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A Thai resident spotted odd rocks by a pond in 2016 that turned out to be bones from a 27-meter-long dinosaur weighing as much as nine elephants. Scientists just named this giant Nagatitan, possibly the largest dinosaur ever found in Asia.
A free fossil discovery program at Middle Fork River Forest Preserve lets children experience the thrill of paleontology through hands-on digging. Young explorers can even take home their prehistoric finds.
Construction workers renovating San Pedro High School uncovered millions of fossils from over 200 ancient species, some nearly 9 million years old. Students are now helping researchers study an entire prehistoric ocean ecosystem discovered right beneath their classrooms.
A 43-foot marine monster that ruled ancient seas 80 million years ago just earned the name Tylosaurus rex, making it the ocean's answer to the dinosaur king. The discovery came from museum fossils that sat misidentified for decades.
A family outing near a shopping center in Mansfield, Texas turned into a paleontological treasure hunt when a curious kindergartener spotted fossils that scientists later identified as a 100-million-year-old nodosaur. What started as a child's innocent curiosity became a scientifically significant discovery of one of North America's rarest armored dinosaurs.
Trapped in amber for 100 million years, a bizarre insect with crab-like pincers is rewriting what scientists thought possible in the insect world. This tiny predator represents only the fourth time such claws evolved independently in insects.
A massive ocean predator named Tylosaurus rex has been hiding in plain sight for decades, misidentified in museum drawers. Paleontologists discovered the 43-foot sea giant by taking a second look at fossils labeled as a different species.
Tiny scratches on fossilized teeth reveal baby duck-billed dinosaurs ate softer, nutrient-rich foods than adults, suggesting bird-like parenting 80 million years ago. The discovery shows Maiasaura parents may have actively fed their helpless young, much like modern birds do today.
Scientists in Canada's Northwest Territories discovered fossils that are 567 million years old, making them the oldest evidence of animal movement and sexual reproduction ever found. The discovery suggests complex life may have begun in deep ocean waters, not shallow coastlines as scientists long believed.
Harrison Duran turned his childhood dinosaur obsession into scientific reality when he helped unearth a Triceratops skull just three days into a 2019 university excavation. The fossil, named "Alice," came from one of North America's richest dinosaur sites.
Researchers discovered fossilized fish in North Dakota with tiny glass beads from the dinosaur-killing asteroid lodged in their gills, proving they were alive when the impact debris rained down. It's the most direct evidence yet of what happened in the first hour after Earth's most famous catastrophe.
Scientists in China's Ningxia region uncovered 241 dinosaur footprints frozen in time for 110 million years, revealing how giant sauropods moved in herds and gathered at watering holes. The discovery offers a vivid snapshot of life during the Early Cretaceous period.
Paleontologists have uncovered fossils of a massive marine predator that ruled the oceans over 80 million years ago, dwarfing today's great white sharks. The discovery sheds new light on prehistoric ocean ecosystems and the giants that once dominated them.
Scientists in northwestern Canada just discovered fossils that rewrite the timeline of animal evolution, pushing back the origins of complex life by up to 10 million years. These ancient creatures, some 567 million years old, show that the deep ocean may have been the original cradle of animal life.
Scientists discovered over 100 fossils in northwestern Canada that show complex animals evolved up to 10 million years earlier than we thought. The find reveals creatures could move and hunt millions of years before similar fossils found anywhere else.
Scientists just discovered fossils in Canada's remote mountains that push back the timeline of complex animal life by up to 10 million years. Even more surprising: our earliest ancestors may have started in the deep ocean, not shallow waters like we've always believed.
Scientists discovered 100+ fossils in Canada's remote mountains that push back the timeline for Earth's earliest moving, sexually reproducing creatures by millions of years. The deep ocean, not shallow waters, may have been life's nursery.
Scientists discovered over 100 fossils in Canada's Northwest Territories that push back evidence of animal movement and sexual reproduction by 10 million years. The 567-million-year-old specimens reveal how life transitioned from microscopic organisms to complex animals capable of moving, feeding, and reproducing.
Scientists discovered 567-million-year-old fossils in Canada's remote mountains that show some of Earth's earliest creatures could move and reproduce sexually. The findings suggest complex life began in the deep ocean before gradually moving to shallow waters.
A tiny 163-million-year-old dinosaur fossil from China preserved something scientists almost never see: a voice box that shows dinosaurs didn't roar like movie monsters. Instead, they chirped, cooed, and called like modern birds.
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