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Topic: Paleontology

Megalodon from prehistoric times scene 3D illustration, though the ancient shark probably didn't look like this. (Warpaintcobra / Getty Images)

Megalodon even bigger than we thought

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Reconstructed Early Cretaceous living environment of the Gansubatrachus qilianensis. (Baoxia Du et al., Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2024 )

Ancient frog has eggs in its belly

Matthew Rozsa
A Camptosaurus (L) and an Allosaurus skeletons are displayed on November 13, 2018 at the Artcurial auction house in Paris. (STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN/AFP via Getty Images)

Dinosaur cannibalism was common: study

Nicole Karlis
Reconstruction of Hupehsuchus about to engulf a shoal of shrimps. (Artwork by Shunyi Shu, © Long Cheng, Wuhan Center of China Geological Survey)

An ancient whale-like reptile

Matthew Rozsa
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Artistic reconstruction of a group of Burgessomedusa phasmiformis swimming in the Cambrian sea (Reconstruction by Christian McCall)

Oldest known swimming jellyfish revealed

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Life reconstruction of Olympicetus thalassodon pursuing a school of fishes alongside plotopterid birds (background) somewhere in the eastern North Pacific Ocean. (Art by Cullen Townsend)

Ancient dolphin cousins with weird teeth

Matthew Rozsa
Artist’s impression of Balaenognathus maeuseri (Artwork by Megan Jacobs)

Jurassic mix between flamingo and whale

Troy Farah
A segment of Dakota fossil, mummified Edmontosaurus annectens (Kabacchi/Wikimedia Commons)

How to mummify a dinosaur

Troy Farah
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Life reconstruction of Fanjingshania renovata (FU Boyuan and FU Baozhong)

Fish fossils rewrite the history of life

Troy Farah
The Jakapil kaniukura dinosaur (WikiCommons/CONICET/Félix de Azara Natural History Foundation)

Meet a dog-size, armored dinosaur

Matthew Rozsa
Tyrannosaurus rex dinosaur (Getty Images/ROGER HARRIS/SPL)

The real world behind "Jurassic World"

Matthew Rozsa
Velociraptor dinosaur in lush green jungle (Getty Images/Chris Clor)

The warm-blooded dino debate — solved

Matthew Rozsa
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Sir David Attenborough holding an ammonite in his left hand looking to camera with VisFx Pterosaur and t. Rex behind him, with asteroid streaking through the sky. (Photo courtesy of BBC Studios)

A play-by-play of the day the dinos died

Nicole Karlis
Triceratops grazing on a magnolia tree next to cycas (Getty Images/Stocktrek Images)

When dinosaurs died, plants thrived

Matthew Rozsa
Artist interpretation: Tupandactylus imperator, a pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous Crato Formation of Brazil (Getty Images/Sergey Krasovskiy)

Pterosaurs had brightly colored feathers

Matthew Rozsa
Diplodocus fossil, at the Natural History Museum, in Paris, Illustration from French newspaper Le Petit Parisien, May 10, 1908, Private Collection. (Leemage/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

The Bone Wars echo in vax fight today

Logan W. Cole
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Petrified tree trunks beside the rio Manati near Iquitos, Peru (iStock/Getty Images)

Secrets of Peru's petrified forest

Herb Meyer, Deborah Woodcock - The Conversation
Reconstruction of Yamatosaurus with Kamuysaurus in the background (Masato Hattori)

When "Cretaceous cows" took over Earth

Matthew Rozsa
Family of T-rex (Getty Images)

Tyrannosaurs hunted in packs: study

Matthew Rozsa
The silhouetted forms of a pair of courting sauropod dinosaurs (Getty Images)

Exactly how did dinosaurs have sex?

Matthew Rozsa
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Tyrannosaurus Rex, trailing behind Ceratopsians (Getty Images)

Scientists say T. Rex was a slow walker

Matthew Rozsa
Tyrannosaurus-rex (Getty Images)

Scientists just did a T. Rex census

Matthew Rozsa
Two pteranodons flying (Getty Images/estt)

Largest flying animal gets a bone scan

Matthew Rozsa
The skull and jaw of an Allosaurus skeleton is displayed at the Drouot auction house, in Paris on October 9, 2020 (THOMAS COEX/AFP via Getty Images)

The dino named for being scary

Matthew Rozsa
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