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• Bone cancer found in 240-million-yr-old stem-turtle fossil - Evidence of cancer in fossils is rare because it usually occurs in soft tissue. The kind of cancer found here is even more rare—just 800 to 900 human cases are reported each yr in US. That makes the fossil a truly unique specimen.
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• How a poor Victorian woman became a legendary fossil hunter - Mary Anning was renowned as a ‘geological lioness’, with her discoveries including the 1st complete plesiosaur fossil. Now, centuries later, her town of Lyme Regis is putting up a long overdue statue of her.
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• The first complete dinosaur skeleton ever identified has finally been studied in detail and found its place in the dinosaur family tree, completing a project that began more than 150 years ago.
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• Research says Tyrannosaurus rex was built for distance, not speed
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• 10,000-year-old woolly rhino carcass discovered with fur, eyes and horns still intact
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• The day the dinosaurs died. Incredible locality shows the first moments after the meteorite strike.
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• Dinosaurs Were Around Before Saturn Had Rings - Data from the Cassini space probe suggests that the rings may be as young as 150 million yrs old
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• Incredible Fossil Shows a Thalattosaur in the Belly of an Ichthyosaur.
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• Feathered dinosaur tail found trapped in amber
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• Remarkable Dinosaur Finds Threatened By Trump Plan To Shrink Utah Monument
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• David Attenborough to reveal remains of largest dinosaur ever to walk the planet. Renowned naturalist will unveil a full-size model of the 37-metre titanosaur, which weighed 70 tonnes, in a new BBC show.
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• 95-million-year-old fossil reveals new group of pterosaurs. Ancient flying reptiles known as pterosaurs were much more diverse than originally thought, according to a new study by an international group of paleontologists.
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• ‘Treasure trove’ of dinosaur footprints revealed after storms destroy Sussex cliffs - ‘Incredibly detailed’ prints include texture of skin & scales
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• No, That Baby Dinosaur Didn't Crawl. But It Did Walk on 4 Legs As an Infant. A Jurassic-age dinosaur walked on all four legs as a baby, but graduated to a two-legged stance as an adult.
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• New Megaraptor found on Argentina. (Spanish source)
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• Rare skull of elephant ancestor unveiled in France - A farmer kept quiet for years after stumbling across the 1st-ever skull found of a Pyrenean mastodon.
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• This paleontologist is on a mission to teach Mongolians about their own dinosaurs: While Mongolia holds the world's richest dinosaur fossil finds, its children know little about them.
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• Discovery of a new mass extinction.
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• Westminster College Undergraduate Researchers Discover Triceratops During Annual Dig
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• Internal Structure Of The Trilobite Eye Is Almost Identical To That Of Modern Bees
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• Unique in palaeontology: Liquid blood found inside a prehistoric 42,000 year old foal - Permafrost preserved the ‘oldest blood in the world’ boosting hopes of bringing extinct species back to life
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• Ambopteryx, new species of bat-wing dinosaur, discovered in China.
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• New primitive Early Cretaceous bird, Fukuipteryx, found in Japan.
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• Pterosaurs Just Keep Getting Weirder - They beat birds at powered flight. Were they also a step ahead with feathers?
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• Jurassic crocodile ‘missing link’ fossil reveals how ancient reptiles evolved into dolphin-like animals - New species is evidence of transition between land-dwelling reptiles & dolphin-like forms
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