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18-Million-Year Fossil Poop Yields Rare Isopod Parasite
In a unique paleontological breakthrough, the Calvert Marine Museum has revealed the discovery of an ancient coprolite, or ...
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Admire the World's Largest Collection of Fossilized Poop at the New 'Poozeum' in Arizona
Everyone poops—even dinosaurs. If you’re curious about the bowel movements of now-extinct creatures like Tyrannosaurus rex ...
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Scientists Unearth the Oldest Tadpole Fossil Ever Found, and It’s a 161-Million-Year-Old ‘Giant’
The oldest known tadpole fossil, which belongs to this species, was found in the Patagonia region of Argentina. Gabriel Lío While in search of dinosaur fossils, a team of Argentine and Chinese ...
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Stunning fossil preserved in fool’s gold reveals newly identified 450 million-year-old species
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. A shimmering ...
Unveiling the T. rex’s diet through fossilised dinosaur poop
Scientists can learn a lot about its diet by studying its poop (see graphic). Pieces of bones found in fossilised dinosaur ...
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Oldest tadpole fossil known to science dates back 161 million years
Palaeontologists found the fossil in January 2020 while searching for feathered dinosaurs in Santa Cruz province in Argentina. “They did not achieve their goal,” says Mariana Chuliver at ...
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The oldest tadpole fossil ever has been found—and it’s a big one
A newly discovered frog fossil represents the oldest tadpole ever found, and it looks remarkably like the tadpoles you’re probably familiar with except for one thing—it was a giant.
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10 Famous Hominin Fossils That Changed Our Thinking About Human Origins
Meet some of your famous family members. / Man_Half-tube/DigitalVision Vectors/Getty Images (skull); filo/DigitalVision Vectors/Getty Images (background) Here are 10 ...
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Fossil trapped in amber reveals previously unknown species that lived during time of dinosaurs
The discovery comes from a fossil of an ancient firefly species that was initially discovered in 2016, trapped in 99 million-year-old Burmese amber from northern Myanmar. The beetle is only the ...
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Fossils & Ruins News
Oct. 29, 2024 — Paleontologists have identified fossils of an ancient species of bug that spent the past 450 million years covered in fool's gold in central New York. The new species ...
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Fossils and Fortunes
Hear perspectives on the fossil trade from private collectors, paleontologists, and others, as Big John—the largest Triceratops fossil ever found—is assembled in Italy and auctioned in France.
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Hong Kong discovers dinosaur fossils for the first time
Officials in Hong Kong say they have discovered dinosaur fossils in the city for the first time on a remote, uninhabited island that’s part of a geopark HONG KONG -- Officials in Hong Kong said ...