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Fossil trove reveals three new species of ancient egg-laying mammals

A set of Australian fossils offers a rare glimpse of the ancient relatives of platypuses and echidnas that lived alongside the dinosaurs 100 million years ago

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Exquisite fossils of Cretaceous shark solve mystery of how it hunted

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Fossil snake discovered in India may have been the largest ever

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Ancient marine reptile found on UK beach may be the largest ever

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Artistic reconstruction of Pebanista yacuruna

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Extinct freshwater dolphin from the Amazon was largest of all time

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Mammoth carcass was scavenged by ancient humans and sabre-toothed cats

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When does a bone become a fossil?

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FIG. 1 Cannibal Pachycormus 32427 (color)_2 https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2023.2294000

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Exquisite Jurassic fossils reveal cannibalism in ancient fish

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Captorhinus aguti

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Oldest known skin fossil is from 300-million-year-old reptile

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Early fossil identified as new species of Tyrannosaurus

A dinosaur known only from a partial skull has been dubbed Tyrannosaurus mcraensis, adding a new twist to long-running debates about putative relatives of Tyrannosaurus rex

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Massive pliosaur skull sheds light on ancient sea reptile

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1.75-billion-year-old fossils help explain how photosynthesis evolved

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Tiny T. rex fossils may be distinct species – but not everyone agrees

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An ancient whale claimed the title of heaviest animal ever in 2023

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