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The Most Impressive Fossil Discovered To Date
Looking through photographer Robert Clark’s photo set for the June 2017 issue of National Geographic, taken at Alberta’s Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, one cannot help but feel they’re witnessing a character …
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First Feathered Dinosaur Tail Found
Perfectly preserved in amber (with feathers, eight vertebrae and soft tissue), the world’s first dinosaur tail has been discovered—initially at a market in Myitkyina, Myanmar in 2015. While feathers have been found …
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First-Ever Fossilized Dinosaur Brain Found
The first-ever fossilized dinosaur brain has been discovered in England, and the preservation is so incredible that paleontologists and paleobiologists believe it was essentially pickled. While it may look like a rock, …
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Paleontologists Discover a Fossilized Skull of the Siberian Unicorn
While they might not look exactly like we had imagined, unicorns actually did exist—and more recently than previously believed. Paleontologists in Kazakstan have uncovered a well-preserved skull of the Elasmotherium sibiricum (aka …
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A New Dinosaur Has Been Discovered
Amateur fossil-hunters recently uncovered the bones of a brand new dinosaur in Wales. The dog-sized dino, newly named Dracoraptor hanigani (which means “dragon robber”), was a small, carnivorous species that lived during …
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The Art of Reconstructing an Ancient Human
An ancient human species called Homo naledi made headlines last week after bones were unearthed in an underground cave in South Africa. To visualize what the distant human ancestor may have looked …
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T. Rex’s Awkward Vegetarian Cousin
Looks like you’re not the only one with an awkward, embarrassing cousin; the Tyrannosaurus Rex had one too. Though it’s known officially as Chilesaurus diegosaurezi, this vegetarian T. Rex relative is often …
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Car-Sized Salamander Fossils
Archaeologists have discovered a massive boneyard of prehistoric super-salamanders in Algarve, Portugal. While the bones from these enormous amphibians are in fact quite common, the newly found fossils are different enough to …