Crocodiles may seem intimidating in the year 2020, but millions of years ago, they were so large, they were able to eat dinosaurs. These massive North American crocodiles, scientists said, had teeth the “size of bananas.” According to a new study of fossils of Deinosuchus published in the Journal of …
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Researchers have compiled the bones and life of an ancient species of lizard that had an incredibly long neck. Tanystropheus hydroids had a neck that took almost half of its body length, and it may have given the animal many benefits. The lizard probably lived in the water and hunted …
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Approximately 1.4 million years ago, a hominid in what is now Ethiopia painstakingly modified a hippo bone in a hand ax, demonstrating mastery of the advanced “Acheulean technique” that had only been thought to have been developed half a million years later. Prehistoric stone tools are quite common. Bone tools …
Read More »A fly caught in amber, showing its original coloration. Image: Chenyang Cai et al., 2020 Fossils rarely retain evidence of an organism’s original color, but these 99-million-year-old amber fossils found in Myanmar reveal the vibrant hues of another world. New investigation Published today in Proceedings of the Royal Society B …
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Entering the record books as the second largest animal egg ever found on Earth, paleontologists from the National Museum of Natural History of Chile and the University of Texas at Austin have identified a giant fossilized egg that belongs to a reptile Extinct marine that once swam in Antarctic waters …
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