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230-Million-Year-Old Headless Fossil in Argentina Is One of the World’s Oldest Dinosaurs

Meet Huayracursor jaguensis, one of the world’s oldest dinosaurs whose almost complete skeleton was found in an unexplored ...

Pocatello museum unveiling skull recreation of ‘dinosaur-eating’ crocodile this Saturday

A local museum will soon have a skull recreation on display of an ancient creature that hasn’t even been officially named yet ...

New species of dinosaur found in Argentina may be one of world’s oldest. See it

Researchers in the Andes of Argentina discovered one of the oldest known dinosaurs as a species new to science. Lucas Fiorelli (CRILAR-CONICET), Martín Hechenleitner (CRILAR-CONICET) and Léa Leuzinger ...
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'Sword Dragon' of the Jurassic was built for speed and precision

A razor-snouted marine reptile with dinner-skewer teeth, Xiphodracon goldencapensis, has been added to the ichthyosaur family ...

The Strange 540-Million-Year-Old Fossil Shaking Up Evolutionary History

A strange Cambrian fossil named Salterella may hold the key to understanding how early animals first built skeletons. As the ...