Fossils

Fossils

Dino Flesh from Fossil Bone

Scientists may have found dinosaur blood vessels and cells inside a fossilized leg bone.

Fossils

Dino takeout for mammals

Ancient mammals dined on young dinosaurs.

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Big fish in ancient waters

Fossils have revealed an ancient, oversized relative of modern-day swordfish.

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Downsized dinosaurs

Island living may have led to miniature versions of giant dinosaurs.

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Early birds ready to rumble

A fossil hints that prehistoric baby birds could have fed themselves soon after hatching.

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Hunting by sucking, long ago

An ancient sea creature with a snakelike neck may have sucked up its prey.

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Ferocious growth spurts

Teenage tyrannosaurs packed on the pounds.

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Dino bite leaves a tooth

Meat-eating dinosaurs sometimes feasted on flying reptiles.

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Fingerprinting fossils

Researchers can find out in what kind of soil a fossil was originally buried.

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Ancient critter caught shedding Its skin

A fossil reveals that ancient animals shed their skin, just as insects and crustaceans do today.

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Winged insects may go way back

A fossil's mouthparts hint that winged insects lived on Earth 400 million years ago.

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Teeny Skull Reveals Ancient Ancestor

A tiny fossil skull represents the earliest known ancestor of monkeys and apes.