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Scientists just discovered a bizarre two-legged, toothless crocodile relative that looks exactly like a dinosaur but isn't. The 200-million-year-old fossil from New Mexico fills a gap researchers knew had to exist.
A homeowner building a garden wall in the 1990s accidentally grabbed a 240-million-year-old predator from a quarry. Researchers just confirmed it's one of Australia's most significant fossil discoveries in decades.
A curious girl on a Welsh beach discovered five dinosaur footprints preserved for over 200 million years. Experts confirmed the rare find likely came from an early long-necked dinosaur from the Late Triassic period.
Scientists just identified a new species of ancient crocodile that could outrun a dog, and it's been hiding in a museum drawer since 1969. The discovery reveals how life thrived before one of Earth's biggest mass extinctions.
A mountain photographer stumbled upon thousands of perfectly preserved dinosaur footprints on vertical cliff faces in the Italian Alps. The discovery has become one of the world's richest deposits of Triassic-era tracks.