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OXFORD PALEONTOLOGY
A 12-year-old’s fossil hunt changed how scientists saw ancient seasA remarkable discovery by the Anning family on England's Lyme Regis cliffs in the early 1800s unearthed an ichthyosaur fossil, revolutioniz...- Rare Jurassic Pterosaur Bone Uncovered in English QuarryA recently discovered forearm bone from the Stonesfield Slate in Oxfordshire, dating back to the Middle Jurassic, offers crucial insights i...
- How we came to be: Scientists get first look at the evolution of early complex animalsNew fossils discovered in China’s Yunnan province show that complex animal life began millions of years earlier than previously thought, du...
- 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...
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