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    See how scientists uncover 50,000-year-old fossils from California's La Brea Tar Pits where saber-tooth cats and mammoths have been found

    La Brea tar pit scientists find mammoths, saber-tooth cats, dire wolves and more in asphalt. Here's...

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    An 11-Year-Old Girl’s Fossil Find Is the Largest Known Ocean Reptile

    When Ruby Reynolds and her father found a fossil on an English beach, they didn’t know...

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    A Swimming Dinosaur? Maybe Not, Study Says

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    The asteroid that wiped out dinosaurs didn't impact bird evolution: new study

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    Famous lizard fossil exposed as a forgery

    A 280-million-year-old fossil from the Italian Alps is pretty much just black paint in the lizard-shaped...

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    A 380-million-year old predatory fish from Central Australia

    A 380-million-year old predatory fish from Central Australia is finally named after decades of digging.

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    'Weird ancient tree from before dinosaurs found in Canadian quarry'

    From the CBC article: "What it really does look like is one of those truffula trees...

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    An Ancient Woolly Mammoth Left a Diary in Her Tusk

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    Ancient reptile’s fossilised skin is the oldest ever discovered

    Researchers have discovered a tiny 3D fragment of fossilised skin at least 21 million years older...