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More than 66 million years ago, a “tyrant lizard king” ruled western North America: the fearsome predatory dinosaur Tyrannosaurus rex. But how large was this monarch’s royal family?
In Walking with Dinosaurs, palaeontologists are captured unearthing the remains of some of the most magnificent creatures to ...
It looks very different to the Hell Creek of sixty six million years earlier. There's a reason we're focusing on this location in prehistory specifically, though. Dinosaur Discovery ...
Cris (Paleocris) and myself went to a small creek in the Gainesville, Florida area to go hunting for shark teeth, on a blistering 91 degree Summer day. We didn't hunt for very long because of the heat ...
Despite multituberculata having an extensive fossil record in the supercontinent Laurasia, until recently, pinheirodontidae have only been known from a few isolated teeth. In 2021, the Ulsa quarry ...
The area is already renowned for its superior fossil preservation. However, this is the first time a hell ant—part of the long-extinct Haidomyrmecinae group—has been encountered fossilised ...
The 113-million-year-old fossil of Vulcanidris cratensis is the first known hell ant preserved in rock rather than amber. Anderson Lepeco Brazilian researchers say they’ve discovered the oldest ...
Scientists in Australia have identified the oldest known fossil footprints of a reptile-like animal on a slab of sandstone ...
Mysterious fossil teeth found in the Caribbean belong to a family of extinct, land-dwelling reptiles that look like what you might get if you crossed a crocodile with a greyhound dog. This is the ...
Jurassic era shark teeth fossils have been unearthed in railway works. The exciting find has been made as investigations into the ground kick off along a proposed rail route between Oxford and ...
VENICE, Fla. (CBS12) — A Florida woman found a six-inch-long fossilized megalodon tooth while scuba diving off Florida's Gulf Coast. On Friday, Kristina Scott of St. Petersburg was scuba diving ...