Fossils
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Fossils
Hunting by sucking, long ago
An ancient sea creature with a snakelike neck may have sucked up its prey.
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Fossils
Dino bite leaves a tooth
Meat-eating dinosaurs sometimes feasted on flying reptiles.
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Fossils
Fingerprinting fossils
Researchers can find out in what kind of soil a fossil was originally buried.
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Fossils
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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Fossils
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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Fossils
Teeny Skull Reveals Ancient Ancestor
A tiny fossil skull represents the earliest known ancestor of monkeys and apes.
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Fossils
Dinosaurs grow up
Learning how fast dinosaurs grew may help link birds to dinosaurs.
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Earth
Killer space rock snuffed out ancient life
Rock fragments from Antarctica suggest a huge meteor struck Earth 250 million years ago.
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Fossils
Did dinosaurs do handstands?
Enormous dinosaurs might have balanced on their front feet when wading in shallow water.
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Fossils
Watery fate for nature’s gliders
Fossil bones hint that sea-level increases doomed Atlantic albatross populations.
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Fossils
A really big (but extinct) rodent
A rodent about the size of a bison once roamed the riverbanks of ancient Venezuela.
By Emily Sohn