Paleontology

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  1. Paleontology

    Scotland’s Isle of Skye was once a dinosaur promenade

    New dinosaur fossil tracks on the Isle of Skye reveal that the once-balmy environment was home to both fierce theropods and massive sauropods.

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  2. Life

    Dark coats may have helped the earliest mammals hide from hungry dinosaurs

    During the age of dinosaurs, early mammals probably lacked the stripes and spots of their modern relatives, having uniformly dark, drab coats.

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  3. Life

    A skull found in Egypt shows this top predator stalked ancient Africa

    Archaeologists uncovered a fossilized skull of an ancient sharp-toothed predator that likely hunted early elephants and primates.

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  4. Paleontology

    Giant camel-like creatures lived thousands of years longer than once thought

    Fossilized teeth from two ancient megafauna suggest they roamed Brazil 3,500 years ago. The find “opens the door to rewrite South American history.”

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  5. Paleontology

    Earth’s first waterfowl may have lived in Antarctica 69 million years ago

    A few fossilized body parts hinted at an enigmatic bird's close ties to waterfowl like ducks and geese. A newfound skull may bolster that idea.

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  6. Paleontology

    A mysteriously large pterosaur finally has an identity

    A Jurassic pterosaur fossil, known to paleontologists for over 160 years, isn’t a new species. It is an odd specimen of Rhamphorhynchus muensteri.

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  7. Life

    Early human ancestors didn’t regularly eat meat

    Chemicals in the tooth enamel of Australopithecus suggest the early human ancestors ate very little meat, dining on vegetation instead.

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  8. Paleontology

    Humans, not climate change, may have wiped out Australia’s giant kangaroos

    About 40,000 years ago, giant kangaroos vanished Down Under. Dental analyses suggest a varied diet, meaning climate change was not the main cause.

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  9. Paleontology

    China’s famously rich dinosaur fossil beds get a new origins story

    Cave-ins and floods may have buried the Cretaceous creatures of the fossil Jehol Biota rather than volcanic eruptions, a new study claims.

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