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Prehistoric Mammals' Dark Fur Was Key to Survival
A discovery about the dark fur of early mammals confirms long-held theories about their evolutionary and ecological behavior.
The first fossil thrips in Africa: this tiny insect pest met its end in a volcanic lake 90 million years ago
Thrips are tiny insects—their sizes range between 0.5mm and 15mm in length and many are shorter than 5mm. But the damage they ...
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Curious Kids: what was biggest dinosaur that ever lived
Zavier, 14, Tauranga, New Zealand. Great question Zavier, and one that palaeontologists (scientists who study fossil animals ...
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Unveiling the Giants: The Biggest Dinosaurs Ever!
Palaeontologists are captivated by the size of record-breaking dinosaurs worldwide. Through measuring bone proportions and ...
Dinosaur tracks, made 140 million years ago, have been found for the first time in South Africa’s Western Cape
Ichnology is the study of tracks and traces and, since 2008, the Cape South Coast Ichnology Project has documented more than 370 vertebrate tracksites on South Africa’s southern coast. These sites are ...
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Dinosaurs: Facts about the reptiles that roamed Earth more than 66 million years ago
Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 ...
Early mammals were all one color, study suggests
The new research is the first to look back at early mammals in full color. Using advanced fossil imaging methods and a ...
Oldest cerapodan ornithischian dinosaur discovered in Morocco
A team of paleontologists from the Natural History Museum in the U.K., the University of Birmingham, also in the U.K., and Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, in Morocco, has unearthed the oldest ...
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Curious Kids: What Was The Biggest Dinosaur That Ever Lived?
By a very small margin, Spinosaurus is currently thought to have been the largest carnivorous (meat-eating) dinosaur, ...