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550 million-year-old sea sponge fossil find fills gap in its family tree
Interesting Engineering· 6 days ago“If you extrapolate back, then perhaps the first ones were soft-bodied creatures with entirely...
Fossil-hunting diver makes stunning ancient find off Florida coast: 'Very rare'
Fox News via Yahoo News· 6 days agoAlex Lundberg, a scuba diver and fossil hunter, found an ancient mastodon tusk in Manasota Key,...
Bizarre egg-laying mammals once ruled Australia—then lost their teeth
Ars Technica· 3 days agoOnly two types of monotremes, the platypus and echidna, still exist, but more monotreme species were...
Dinosaur footprints, fossils discovered 'in our own backyard'
New Hampshire Union Leader· 1 day ago“To have this in our own backyard,” Mayor Guyleen Castriotta said. The Friday afternoon field trip...
Team finds 'missing' 550 million-year-old sea sponge
Futurity· 5 days agoResearchers have discovered a 550 million-year-old sea sponge fossil, filling in a gap in the evolutionary family tree of one of the earliest animals. At...
Huge cheetah that roamed China 1 million years ago would have stood face to face with a tiger
Live Science via Yahoo News· 7 days agoArtist impression of extinct giant cheetah species Acinonyx pleistocaenicus hunting . Scientists...
‘Extremely rare’ dinosaur discovered by 3 tweens: My friends ‘don’t believe me that I found a T....
NY Post via Yahoo News· 7 days agoJessin and Lyson excavated hand in hand. They first etched out the creature’s neck, jaw and teeth —...
Paleontologists Are Fuming Over AI Depictions of Prehistoric Animals
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 13 hours agoA rat with at least four testicles, one larger than its head, published in a scientific journal...
How 3 US kids discovered a T. rex fossil on a hike in North Dakota
South China Morning Post· 7 days agoAfter its death around 67 million years ago, it was entombed in the Hell Creek Formation, a popular...
The 3 dinosaurs that inspired Godzilla's character design
Creative Bloq via Yahoo News· 7 days agoThe final inspiration comes from the Iguanadon – another herbivorous dinosaur species hailing from...