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The Earth’s Worst-Ever Extinction Event Wiped Out 90% of All Animal Species
Everyone knows that dinosaurs are extinct, and most people have some idea about how it might have occurred. But the exact ...
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The Mass Extinction Event That Led to the Rise in Dinosaurs
Read about the Jurassic extinction event that wiped out many species at the beginning of this Period and led to the rise of the dinosaurs.
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Pregnant 131-million-year-old marine reptile found with two fossilized fetuses
Back in 2009, paleontologist Judith Pardo-Pérez unearthed the fossilized remains of an ichthyosaur — a dolphin-like marine ...
252-Million-Year-Old Fossils Reveal Secrets of Triassic Life
A new review of Triassic fossils from Germany reveals rich tetrapod diversity and links to modern biodiversity and climate ...
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Ancient amphibians as big as alligators died in mass mortality event in Triassic Wyoming
Dozens of amphibians perished together on an ancient floodplain around 230 million years ago, according to a new study.
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How a 162-Year-Old Specimen Helped Prove the Existence of an ‘Incredulous’ Lizard Species
A serendipitous find in the National Museum of Natural History’s collections yielded just the second known specimen of a ...
Life recovered rapidly at site of dino-killing asteroid: A hydrothermal system may have helped
About 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the planet, wiping out all non-avian dinosaurs and about 70% of all marine species. But the crater it left behind in the Gulf of Mexico was a ...
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In 1970, an Underwater Camera Searched for the Loch Ness Monster. It Just Surfaced—With Haunting Photos.
A camera trap deployed by a Loch Ness researcher in 1970 was recently recovered by an autonomous robot. Not only was it still intact—it still had film that could be developed, and the photos ...