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"This fossilized tooth found amid an assemblage of marine fossils including bryozoans, brachiopods, and crinoids indicates that the Qujing region experienced multiple marine transgressions from ...

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BOULDER, Colo. — Paleontologists recently discovered a rare mammal fossil in western Colorado. It's a genus of mammal that lived between 70 million and 75 million years ago and has never been ...

When nations at last year’s global climate conference historically agreed to transition away from coal, oil and gas, Australia’s climate minister predicted that the “age of fossil fuels will ...

The identification of part of the fossilized remains of a so-called "terror bird" species in South America has given researchers new insight into the apex predators ...

The 237-million-year-old remains are among the oldest silesaurid fossils ever found, adding to paleontologists’ understanding of this still-mysterious group of prehistoric reptiles Alexa Robles ...

A FLESH-EATING bird has been uncovered after nearly 12 million years in a Colombian desert. Scientists revealed this extinct “Terror Bird” was the largest of its ...

Researchers including a Johns Hopkins University evolutionary biologist report they have analyzed a fossil of an extinct giant meat-eating bird—which they say could be the largest known member of its ...

Evolutionary biologists report they have analyzed a fossil of an extinct giant meat-eating bird -- which they say could be the largest known member of its kind -- providing new information about ...

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They don't look alike, and they aren't biologically related, but part of their evolutionary history bears a striking resemblance: these organisms are referred to as "living fossils". In other ...