Fossils

  1. Fossils

    Early toehold on land

    A five-toed fossil now holds the record for smallest, oldest foot ever found.

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  2. Animals

    The secret songs of giant beavers

    Scientists discover a noisemaking chamber in the extinct animal’s skull.

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    Dino teeth tell a traveling tale

    Dental evidence from sauropods suggests the mighty beasts migrated for food.

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  4. Fossils

    Dangerous dinos in the dark

    Eye fossils reveal predatory dinosaurs’ preference for hunting at night.

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  5. Fossils

    Prehistoric air travel

    Flying reptiles might have crossed oceans, continents nonstop.

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  6. Fossils

    Message in a dinosaur’s teeth

    Giant dino that was T. rex rival may have spent most of its time in the water.

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  7. Fossils

    Dino-bite!

    Study suggests dinosaur's teeth packed poison.

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  8. Fossils

    The paleontologist and the three dinosaurs

    Skulls thought to be from three different dinosaurs may actually be from the same dino type at three different ages.

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  9. Fossils

    The bug that may have killed a dinosaur

    The holes in the jaw bone of a world-famous T. Rex suggest the dino died from a parasite infection.

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  10. Fossils

    Three strikes wiped out woolly mammoths

    Giant mammals went extinct thanks to climate, comet and people.

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  11. Fossils

    Mini T. rex

    Scientists have unearthed a dinosaur skeleton that looks like a person-sized Tyrannosaurus rex.

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  12. Fossils

    Have shell, will travel

    Fossilized tracks left by early land-dwelling animals reveal they brought shells ashore.

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