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    Biggest find of Triceratops fossils proves they were social dinosaurs

    A haul of 1,200 bones and bone fragments of at least 5 Triceratops horridus individuals has...

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    Fossil of largest ever river dolphin found in Amazon

    Researchers have found the fossilised skull of the largest ever river dolphin. While found in the...

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    270-million-year-old amphibian named after Kermit the Frog

    An ancient amphibian ancestor found in Texas has been named Kermitops gratus in honour of iconic...

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    Fossil of a giant freshwater turtle found in the Brazilian Amazon

    Fossilised remains of a giant freshwater turtle which lived between 40,000 and 9,000 years ago have...

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    390-million-year-old fossil forest found in England is the oldest in the world

    Fossilised trees found in southwest England form the earliest known forest on Earth. The find highlights...

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    Mammal ancestors evolved a killer instinct to deal with larger, faster prey

    Before dinosaurs, ancestors of mammals were the top predators. Research suggests these first large land carnivores...

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    3D tree fossil from 350 million years ago “unlike any alive today”

    A 352-million-year-old tree fossil has been discovered in Canada which resembles nothing that we have ever...

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    “Chicken from hell” dinosaur discovered by researcher who bought fossil online

    A PhD student bought dinosaur fossils online for a class project and ended up discovering and...

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    Dinosaur footprints add to Thailand’s rich fossil record

    A collection of fossilised dinosaur tracks have been discovered in Thailand. The footprints are 220-225 million...

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    Closest dinosaur relative to T-rex may just have been found

    A giant new tyrannosaur species has been discovered in the southern US which may be the...

  • Hortus Eystettensis: The Beautifully Illustrated Book of Plants That Changed Botanical Art Overnight (1613)

    If you made it big in seventeenth-century Bavaria, you showed it by creating a garden with...

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    Mistaken identity? Scientists say this dinosaur isn’t T-rex

    Fossils believed to be juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex actually belong to a different species, first named more...

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    Ant or bee? T. rex or Minmi as a dino pet? Real questions

    Cosmos asked the tough questions in its Would you rather? podcast series. Among them was would...

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    Oldest known fossils of the Frankincense plant family

    An unsolved mystery puzzling the world of paleobotany since the 1970s has been solved. Researchers determined...

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    Mysterious bird-like tracks in Africa: The oldest birds?

    Fossil tracks found in southern Africa, push the potential evolution of the first birds back to...