Paleontology
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PaleontologyLizard king thrived in ancient warm climate
The herbivorous reptile of 40 million years ago was around 2 meters long.
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PaleontologyFossil muddies the origin of birds
New specimen may be a feathered dinosaur — or the earliest avian yet discovered
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PaleontologyMy Beloved Brontosaurus
On the Road with Old Bones, New Science, and Our Favorite Dinosaurs by Brian Switek.
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PaleontologyEarliest primate had tree-climber ankles
A creature known only from fossils of its teeth gets some more parts.
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PaleontologyThe Last Lost World
Ice Ages, Human Origins, and the Invention of the Pleistocene, by Lydia V. Pyne and Stephen J. Pyne.
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PaleontologyNot your typical pterosaur
A beautifully preserved fossil from Germany displays a wing unlike any ever seen.
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PaleontologyT. rex has another fine, feathered cousin
A trio of fossils from China may tip the scales on dinosaurs’ public image.
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PaleontologyTriceratops reigns alone again
Fossil comparison fends off a challenge that holds the dinosaur is but the immature version of the Torosaurus.
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PaleontologyEarly animals dethroned
Cell division patterns in controversial Chinese fossils place them outside the animal kingdom.
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PaleontologyDNA suggests North American mammoth species interbred
Supposedly separate types may really have been one.
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PaleontologyTooth stranger than fiction
A mammal fossil unearthed in South America resembles ‘Ice Age’ saber-toothed squirrel.