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The rediscovery of a long-lost Megalodon fossil has sparked renewed scientific interest in the massive shark's true physical dimensions.
A 518-million-year-old fossil of the creature Urokodia provides new evidence regarding the evolutionary origins of spider fangs.
A long-overlooked fossil held in storage for four decades has been identified as the first dinosaur bone discovered on the Antarctic continent.
Researchers have identified 180-million-year-old fossilized microbes located deep beneath the surface of the sea in Morocco.
Paleontologists have identified a new species of four-winged, feathered dinosaur from China that may have glided to hunt birds 120 million years ago.