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CT SCANNING IN PALEONTOLOGY
Goodbye to the myth that Tanystropheus hunted on land: CT scans suggest a stranger life in the seaPaleontologists have long debated the Tanystropheus, a prehistoric creature with an unusually long neck. Recent CT scans of its skull revea...- A 7-year-old found a strange fossil in the Badlands, and scientists were stunned by what it was: It belonged to a member of an extinct family of saber-toothed cat-like mammalsA young visitor to Badlands National Park made an extraordinary find. Seven-year-old Kylie Ferguson discovered the fossilized skull of an a...
- Meet Dooly: The Baby Dinosaur Hidden in 113-Million-Year-Old RockA remarkable near-complete skeleton of a young dinosaur, named Doolysaurus huhmini, was unearthed on Aphae Island. This turkey-sized, two-y...
- Shark Teeth Found Stuck in Ancient Whale Skulls Uncover Fierce FeedingFossilized whale skulls from Belgium reveal embedded shark teeth. These fossils are direct evidence of ancient interactions. Researchers fo...
- Scientists Thought They Were Disappearing: Why This Fossil Says OtherwiseA fossilized neck bone unearthed in Russia is rewriting our understanding of ancient flying reptiles. This discovery, similar to a find in ...
- What If Dinosaurs Had Spikes Like Porcupines? This Fossil Suggests They DidScientists found a new dinosaur species, Haolong dongi, in China. This dinosaur had unique hollow spikes growing from its skin. This is the...
- The sharpest teeth in history didn’t belong to giants — they belonged to something tinyContrary to popular belief, some of history's sharpest teeth belonged to tiny animals, not giants. Scientific research reveals that tooth s...
- Scientists just found a 140,000-year-old child's skull in Israel, and what they found could change human historyA child's skull, almost 140,000 years old, was found in Israel. Researchers believe it shows interbreeding between modern humans and Neande...
- The first dinosaur was named 200 years ago. We know so much more nowBuckland recognized that these fossils belonged to a huge bygone reptile, and gave it a formal scientific name: Megalosaurus, meaning "grea...
- Wolf-sized otters roamed Earth over 6 million years ago
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