Fossils Preserve Both Skin and Scales From an Ancient Sea Monster
With serpentine necks, flippers and a mouth full of needle-sharp teeth, plesiosaurs have captured imaginations since ...
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69-million-year-old duck-like bird from dinosaur era discovered in Antarctica
This evidence comes from a nearly complete, 69-million-year-old skull of an extinct bird, named Vegavis iaai.  The fossil ...
66 million years ago, Antarctica was lush, temperate, and home to the oldest modern bird and T-Rex
A recently analyzed near-complete fossil skull found in Antarctica has revealed Vegavis iaai to be the oldest known modern ...
Skull fossil discovery reveals oldest known modern bird
A 68-million-year-old skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird, which was likely related to ...
Cretaceous fossil from Antarctica reveals earliest modern bird
Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico ...
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Where did dinosaurs come from? Scientists think they figured it out
Study suggests dinosaurs originated in the Amazon, but their fossils are missing. They started as small, bipedal creatures in ...
Discovery of collagen in fossil bone could unlock new insights into dinosaurs
For many years, it was widely believed that fossils no longer contained any original organic molecules as the fossilization ...
73 million-year-old dinosaur remains with extremely long hands stuns explorers
A new genus and species of Ornithomimidae, Mexidracon longimanus, has been identified from the ornithomimosaur material.