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Rare Neck Fossil With Puncture Mark Suggests a Prehistoric Crocodilian Snacked on a Young Pterosaur 76 Million Years Ago
The fossil sheds light on interactions within the Cretaceous food web and may represent the first record of this type of ...
Look familiar? 115-million-year-old fossil is of something you might find in the yard
“They went away over the moon with a cool fossil they can show all their friends,” she said. Wight Coast Fossils was created ...
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A 13-year-old found a 5-million-year-old fossil, and now there's a new species of walrus named in his honor
He promised to name it after Sheperd. "That's obviously such a huge accomplishment for any fossil collector to be able to not just find a cool fossil, but to be able to find a fossil that really ...
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Giant, Mysterious Spires Ruled the Earth Long Before Trees Did. What Exactly Are These Odd-Looking Fossils?
For more than 150 years, scientists have debated whether Prototaxites—which stood roughly 24 feet tall and 3 feet wide—were an early lichen or fungus, like a “giant mushroom” ...