Fossils

  1. Fossils

    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.

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    Dinosaurs grow up

    Learning how fast dinosaurs grew may help link birds to dinosaurs.

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  9. 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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    Did dinosaurs do handstands?

    Enormous dinosaurs might have balanced on their front feet when wading in shallow water.

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    Watery fate for nature’s gliders

    Fossil bones hint that sea-level increases doomed Atlantic albatross populations.

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    A really big (but extinct) rodent

    A rodent about the size of a bison once roamed the riverbanks of ancient Venezuela.

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