The ancient ancestors of modern octopuses that lived in Earth’s oceans 100 to 72 million years ago resembled krakens — …
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One of the most striking examples is an ancient relative of modern dragonflies, Meganisoptera—commonly called griffenflies. The insect, about half a meter long with a 70-centimeter wingspan, lived on our…
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According to the Buzău County Museum in Romania, this is the largest piece of amber ever found. An elderly resident of the village of Colți, located in southeastern Romania, stumbled…
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A team from the Geological, Mining, and Metallurgical Institute of Peru and La Unión College unearthed a nearly complete skeleton of a gavial crocodile in the Ocucaje Desert. The Ocucaje…
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It’s rare to find a plant encased in amber, and even rarer to find a dinosaur fragment. Imagine paleontologists’ surprise when what looked like a delicate flower turned out to…
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Researchers at the University of Bristol argue that dinosaurs’ mode of movement helps explain how they dominated the planet for so long. Huge reptiles took over the planet and ruled…
