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A thrilling fossil discovery on England’s Jurassic Coast has revealed a brand-new species of prehistoric mammal, thanks to ...
A University of Portsmouth student has discovered a new species of prehistoric mammal dating back 145 million years to the ...
A student’s fossil discovery on a UK beach has revealed a new species of prehistoric mammal, reshaping ideas about early ...
About 25 million years ago, giant rhinos more than 16 feet tall roamed the Earth. They are considered the largest land mammal that ever lived — but their evolutionary history and dispersal ...
A university student on a fossil-hunting field trip in Dorset made a stunning discovery: a 145-million-year-old jawbone belonging to a previously unknown mammal species with razor-like teeth. With the ...
Scientists have shed new light on the rhino family tree after recovering a protein sequence from a fossilized tooth from more ...
Harvester ants in Nebraska unearthed thousands of fossilized teeth and jaw bones, leading scientists to the discovery of 10 new species.
African, Arabian Mammals Didn’t Escape Grande Coupure Extinction More than two-thirds of mammals in Africa and the Arabian Peninsula went extinct during the Eocene-Oligocene transition some 30 million ...
Their results show that all five mammal groups suffered huge losses around the Eocene-Oligocene boundary.
Given that some of the world's largest mammals took this impressive journey, it's likely that the Tibetan region "was still not uplifted as a high-elevation plateau" at that time, Tao said. It may ...
A batch of newly discovered fossils come from prehistoric giant rhinos — the largest known land mammal in the history of the Earth. Paleontologists discovered a complete skull from one rhino and ...
The rare fossils, found in Gansu Province, China, located at the northeastern border of the Tibetan Plateau, date back to the Late Oligocene, an epoch that lasted from about 34 million years ago ...