Paleontology
Fossil discoveries suggest the earliest dinosaurs laid soft-shelled eggs
Finding soft-shelled dinosaur eggs in the fossil record for the first time has scientists rethinking how dinosaur eggs evolved.
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PaleontologyTwo primate lineages crossed the Atlantic millions of years ago
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