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Despite multiple mass extinctions, the frilled shark has managed to thrive for 100 million years. Today, it remains one of ...

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In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The “Little Foot,” fossil an exquisitely preserved hominin found in South Africa’s ...

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A museum display of the giant crocodile Deinosuchus schwimmeri showcases a 30-foot-long apex predator from the Cretaceous ...

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The earliest case the team found was from 1929, when the growth rate of mosses on a decomposing skeleton helped investigators ...

Winter is cold, winter is wind, winter is snow. Winter requires species to evolve, to respond to the snowpack to survive.

Dwelling around 167 million years ago, the chimeric reptile was discovered along with 70 other prehistoric species.