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Science Jul 06

Fossils reveal dinosaur forerunner smaller than a cellphone

By Seth Borenstein, Associated Press

Nation May 10

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Why the fate of Bears Ears’ cultural treasures is uncertain

In the rugged and remote canyons of Southern Utah, scientists say they've barely scratched the surface of discoveries that can reach back millions of years, or shed light on the last 10,000 years of human history. But their work in…

By Jeffrey Brown

Science Dec 06

An artist’s depiction of Halszkaraptor escuilliei, a small dino with a bizarre set of bird-like features that primed it for life in water and on land. Illustration by Lukas Panzarin and Andrea Cau
Duck-like dinosaur fossil, plucked from black market, makes debut

What has flippers like a penguin, a neck like a swan and a posture like a duck? It’s the newly discovered Halszkaraptor escuilliei or “Halszka”– a bizarre, semi-aquatic dinosaur with a collage of features never seen in any other prehistoric…

By Rashmi Shivni

Science Nov 30

This is a close-up of one of the eggs with an embryo popping through. The scale bar is 10 millimeters, showing how small the eggs really were. Photo by Xiaolin Wang and Alexander W. A. Kellner
These flying prehistoric reptiles had needy babies, rare batch of eggs show

A treasure trove of ancient eggs reveals how flying reptiles called pterosaurs developed in infanthood and how parents took care of their young.

By Rashmi Shivni

Science Oct 26

The petite, rotund greater bamboo lemur lives on Madagascar and is considered the most endangered primate on Earth. Photo by Jukka Jernvall
How climate change is making these bamboo-eating lemurs go hungry

Climate change is starving out Madagascar's greater bamboo lemur, a study published Thursday reports in Current Biology.

By Rashmi Shivni

Jun 28

Amber fossils tell 99 million-year-old story of unusual baby birds

By Nsikan Akpan

A pair of 99 million-year-old fossils reveal Cretaceous baby birds with finger claws and adultlike feathers.

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Mar 30

This ancient arachnid ushered in the spider uprising

By Nsikan Akpan

X-ray scans of a 305-million-year old fossil have unlocked a new chapter in the spider origin story.

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Jan 17

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New titanosaur discovery exhibits state-of-the-art paleontology

By PBS NewsHour

Starting this weekend, visitors to New York's American Museum of Natural History can get close up view of what scientists believe may be the biggest creature to have ever walked the earth. The discovery represents huge gains for modern paleontology.

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Jan 16

Massive titanosaur, biggest dinosaur ever found, squeezes into Museum of Natural History

By Andrew Mach

The biggest creature to ever walk the surface of the earth invaded New York City’s American Museum of Natural History on Friday—a dinosaur species so new that it hasn’t even been named, with a skeleton so big that it doesn’t…

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Sep 10

Cave divers uncover new humanlike species in South Africa

By News Desk

Paleontologists have discovered an ancient human relative in South Africa thanks to a tricky cave diving excavation that recovered close to 1,550 fossils buried 100 feet underground.

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