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Only part of rare 280 million-year-old fossil is real — the rest is mostly paint
A rare 280 million-year-old fossil resembling a lizard-like creature is mostly just a carved rock painted black, a new analysis…
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325 million-year-old shark graveyard discovered deep within Mammoth Cave harbors new fossilized species
Two new shark species that lived 325 million years ago have been discovered in Kentucky’s Mammoth Cave National Park and…
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‘We were gobsmacked’: 350 million-year-old tree fossils are unlike any scientists have ever seen
Exceptionally preserved plant fossils belonging to bizarre bushy trees have been unearthed in southeastern Canada, new research shows. The ancient…
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365 million-year-old ‘alien’ fish had one of the most extreme underbites on record
Scientists recently discovered that an ancient fossilized fish may be one of the top contenders for nature’s most extreme underbite.…
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23 million-year-old petrified mangrove forest discovered hiding in plain sight in Panama
A fossilized wood sample discovered on Barro Colorado Island in Panama. (Image credit: Christian Ziegler) An ancient mangrove forest with…
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72 million-year-old ‘blue dragon’ unearthed in Japan is unlike anything we’ve ever seen, experts say
Mosasaurs are a group of apex marine predators that ruled the oceans toward the end of the Cretaceous period. Unlike…
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120 million-year-old ‘plants’ turn out to be ultra-rare fossilized baby turtles
Two ancient plant fossils collected by a Colombian priest more than 50 years ago are actually rare hatchling turtles from…
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6 million-year-old ‘fossil groundwater pool’ discovered deep beneath Sicilian mountains
The Dolomites mountain range in northern Italy. (Image credit: Rolando Bennati / 500px via Getty Images) A large pocket of…
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120 million-year-old birds tracks near South Pole are the oldest ever discovered in the Southern Hemisphere
Researchers have discovered the earliest bird footprints ever found in Australia, showing that these early birds once lived in southern…
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Scientists finally solve 390 million-year-old ‘murder mystery’ from an ancient supercontinent
The supercontinent Gondwana was located around Earth’s South Pole for around 420 million years. (Image credit: Wikimedia/Fama Clamosa) Researchers have…
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