A blade of bone lay half-buried in Saharan sand, shaped like a scimitar and tall enough to confuse the people who picked it ...
Around 250 million years ago, what is today scorching desert in remote northwestern Australia was the shore of a shallow bay ...
The Kimberley region in the northwest corner of Western Australia is full of rugged ranges and gorges, and long stretches of ...
When dinosaur fossils surface at a site, it is often not possible to tell how many millions of years ago their bones were ...
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This Massive, Meat-Eating Dinosaur Was a 'Hell Heron' That Waded Into Shallow Waters to Nab Slippery Fish
Spinosaurus in the Sahara Desert in Niger, a discovery that adds to the debate over whether the prehistoric creatures were fully or semi-aquatic]]> ...
Spinosaurus, the only known semiaquatic dinosaur predator, joins Tyrannosaurus, Giganotosaurus and Carcharodontosaurus among ...
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Golden ammonites peek out from black shale: What makes these 183-million-year-old fossils so sparkly?
The minerals involved in the fossilization of ancient life can have a dramatic effect on how that fossil turns out. They ...
New genomic research suggests our species descended from a deep fusion between two ancient lineages — one of them a mysterious “ghost.” ...
British scientists reveal a nearly complete pliosaur skull with jaws locked in place, shedding light on Jurassic ocean predators.
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