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This Dinosaur May Have Used Its Strange Clawed Hands to Pilfer and Pierce Eggs
A fresh analysis of a fossil found almost 50 years ago reveals a newly described genus named for its "manipulating claw" ...
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Sharklike Fish With Weird, Buzz-Saw Jaws Sliced Through the Seas, Then Vanished. Now, Paleontologists Are Unraveling Their Secrets
These "total monsters of fishes" are extinct today, though new clues about their lives come from CT scans and their closest ...
In Earth's fossil record, soft-bodied organisms like jellyfish rarely stand the test of time. What's more, it's hard for any ...
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Meet the world's most unusual dinosaur: Bizarre creature that roamed the Earth 165 million years ago had...
Spicomellus is the world's oldest ankylosaur, having roamed the Earth 165 million years ago. The bizarre creature had bony spikes fused onto all of its ribs. This unusual feature has never been seen ...
A dinosaur unlike any other, adorned with an extraordinary array of armour and spikes – some reaching a metre in length – roamed a coastal floodplain in what is now Morocco approximately 165 million ...
Spicomellus afer, a newly analyzed Jurassic ankylosaur from Morocco, is overturning scientists’ understanding of dinosaur evolution. Unlike any other known creature, it carried a collar of meter-long ...
A groundbreaking fossil discovery in the Grand Canyon has unveiled exquisitely preserved soft-bodied animals from the Cambrian period, offering an unprecedented glimpse into early life more than 500 ...
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