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As Earth's climate got wetter, ancient humans were able to migrate more widely, a new scientific model suggests
A research team simulated Earth's climate history 2 million years ago. Their work suggests human ex…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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Paleontologists dismayed after 112-million-year-old dinosaur footprints were damaged by botched construction job
The Bureau of Land Management, which ordered the construction, acknowledged it failed to take prope…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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Strange animal fossils helped scientists discover a long-lost continent called 'Balkanatolia'
Fossil records show the land once hosted distinct species like marsupials and hippo-like mammals, b…
Aria Bendix
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A new species of armless dinosaur discovered in Argentina belongs to a family of fearsome predators
Abelisaurid dinosaurs didn't need arms to become some of the fiercest hunters of the late Cretaceou…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Treasure trove of 2,000 fossils reveals life in Australia's prehistoric rainforest before it turned into desert
Fossils discovered in Australia reveal hundreds of new species, a pollen-covered insect, parasitic …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A 3-foot-long mammoth tusk hidden on the ocean floor could offer clues about the ancient creatures
Scientists discovered a 3-foot-long tusk roughly 10,000 feet below the ocean's surface. Mammoth fos…
Aria Bendix
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Scientists crowned the world's longest dinosaur — a Supersaurus longer than 3 school buses from nose to tail
Supersaurus was likely the world's longest dinosaur — around 137 feet, on average, from nose to tai…
Aria Bendix
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A 193-million-year old nesting ground with more than 100 dinosaur eggs offers evidence they lived in herds
Paleontologists found 100 eggs and 80 skeletons from a dinosaur called Mussaurus at a site in Patag…
Aylin Woodward
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The giant ancestors of today's sloths stood 10 feet tall and ate meat, a new study found
By studying hair from giant prehistoric sloths called mylodons, experts have discovered the animals…
Aylin Woodward
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An ancient skull unlike any human ever seen is baffling scientists and could rewrite the story of our evolution
The skull, found in China in 2019, looks like an ancient modern human but has the chin of a Denisov…
Insider Inc.
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Ice-age humans stabbed a cave bear through the head 35,000 years ago. Researchers just found the damaged skull.
A small cave bear skull (left) and an arrowhead discovered in Russia's Imanay Cave.Ural Federal Uni…
Aylin Woodward
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Fossils unearthed in China reveal a new species of giant prehistoric rhino - the largest land mammal to ever walk the Earth
Giant rhinos were roughly the size of six elephants and they moved back and forth across Asia as th…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Prehistoric megalodon sharks might have been even bigger than previously thought. The chance discovery was made thanks to high schoolers.
A calculation widely used by scientists since 2002 did not stand up to the scrutiny of high school …
Marianne Guenot
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Sharks once nearly disappeared in an abrupt extinction event 'twice as extreme' as the one that killed the dinosaurs
By studying ancient shark scales collected 3 miles under the Pacific waves, experts found that the …
Aylin Woodward
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300,000-year-old footprints are some of the oldest in Europe and show how our ancient ancestors co-existed with rhinos and elephants on lake and river shores
Three fossilized footprints were left behind by the ancient human species Homo heidelbergensis and …
Kelly Burch
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One of the biggest fossil finds in California history has revealed ancient elephants, camels, and bone-crushing dogs
A fossilized mastodon skull and tusk discovered in an area of California east of Oakland.East Bay M…
Aylin Woodward
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T. rexes liked to walk as slowly as humans do - at a leisurely 3 miles per hour, a new study finds
Experts already knew T. rex was slow, with a max speed between 10 and 25 mph. But a new study sugge…
Aylin Woodward
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A whopping 2.5 billion fully grown T. rexes walked the Earth in the course of the species' existence, paleontologists found
A study estimates how many adult T. rexes could live in a given area. That enabled researchers to c…
Aylin Woodward
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The space rock that doomed the dinosaurs was shrapnel from a comet that flew too close to the sun, a Harvard study suggests
The origin of the space rock that killed the dinosaurs has been a mystery. A new study suggests it …
Aylin Woodward
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The 'Dueling Dinosaurs' fossil shows a T. rex and triceratops in a possible fight. Researchers are now poised to unravel its mysteries.
The 67 million-year-old "Dueling Dinosaurs" fossil contains a T. rex and a triceratops skeleton, po…