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Sea creatures buried alive roughly 340 million years ago have yielded the longest-preserved organic molecules ever discovered in a complete fossil.
Fossils of four new cetacean species have been discovered at a road construction site in California.
New analyses of fossils found in the 1930s suggest that a labrador-sized biped lived around 243 million years ago, potentially making it the oldest known dinosaur.
Researchers discover a 70-million-year-old egg that belonged to a small, bird-like meat-eating dinosaur.
Named Guidraco venator for “ghost dragon hunter,” a 120 million-year-old fossil skull appears most closely related to pterosaurs found in Brazil.
Fossilized fleas dating as far back as 165 million years provide clues of early flea evolution.
Researchers reconstruct a new giant penguin species from fossils unearthed in New Zealand.
A fossilized jaw bone and teeth from Western Europe are recognized as the oldest modern human fossils recovered in the region.
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