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Dinosaurs evolved feathers to scare prey, suggests robot experiment

Experiments with a robotic dinosaur suggest feathers may have evolved to startle prey into fleeing from hiding places, a strategy used by some modern birds

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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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Traces of ancient life reveal a 3.4-billion-year-old ecosystem

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Megalodon was nothing like a giant great white shark

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Early fossil identified as new species of Tyrannosaurus

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Attenborough and the Giant Sea Monster,01-01-2024,Sir David Attenborough, Steve Etches,Sir David Attenborough and Steve Etches examine the fossilised snout of a pliosaur in the workshop of the Etches Collection Museum, Kimmeridge, Dorset, UK **STRICTLY EMBARGOED NOT FOR PUBLICATION UNTIL 00:01 HRS ON MONDAY 11TH DECEMBER 2023**,BBC Studios,Screengrab

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Massive pliosaur skull sheds light on ancient sea reptile

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

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Unknown animals left birdlike footprints long before birds existed

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Wonthaggi bird tracks affected by modern erosion and marine organisms at Footprint Flats locality.

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Fossil footprints are the oldest traces of birds in Australia

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Sun-blocking dust from asteroid impact drove the dinosaur extinction

The Chicxulub impact 66 million years ago filled the sky with fine silicate dust, which blocked out sunlight and lingered for 15 years

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Fish adapted to the deep sea 80 million years earlier than we thought

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Exquisite spider fossils from Australia offer clues to their evolution

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The Naked Neanderthal review: Looking for the real Neanderthals

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Ancient mini koala may help solve mystery of early marsupial evolution

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