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Manitoba Museum and ROM palaeontologists discover 506-million-year-old predator

An ancient ‘terror crocodile’ became a dinosaur-eating giant. Scientists say they now know why

Sebecids, a crocodile-like beast, reached the Caribbean as recently as 4.5 million years ago — outlasting mainland kin

Fossil of a new mammal species from the Late Cretaceous (100–66 million-year-old) discovered in Mongolia's Gobi desert

Trapped in time: 16-million-year-old amber reveals dirt ants once ruled Caribbean

Ancient DNA from the green Sahara reveals ancestral North African lineage

Analysis of 30 year old humerus bone suggests Australian echidnas evolved from a water-dwelling ancestor, challenging the understanding that the monotreme descended from a land-bound ancestor

More mammals were living on the ground several million years before the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs

Fossilised footprints from British Columbia, Canada, confirm the presence of ankylosaurid ankylosaurs in the mid-Cretaceous of North America.

The megalodon has long been imagined as an enormous great white shark, but new research suggests that perception is all wrong

A Forgotten Boulder in a School Office Turned Out to Have Dinosaur Footprints from 200 Million Years Ago

Scientist-President Thomas Jefferson discovered large bones that were initially thought to be from a large cat-like predator, but it was later determined to be from a giant sloth

New insights into the structure of some of the oldest lineages for foraminifera may open the door to unlocking temperature records much further back in time.

In the aftermath of the extinction that killed the non-avian dinosaurs, coral reefs inhabited more protected muddy environments

A set of Stone Age artifacts have revealed evidence of advanced cognitive and symbolic behavior among prehistoric humans

The Rise of Algae promoted eukaryote predation in the Neoproterozoic benthos

Paleontologists Discover Nearly Complete 30-Million-Year-Old Skull of a Newly Identified Hypercarnivore in Modern Day Egypt

Research unveils fossils of the world's oldest known megaraptorid and the first evidence of carcharodontosaurs in Australia

Earth’s first waterfowl may have lived in Antarctica 69 million years ago

Accounting for sampling heterogeneity suggests a low paleolatitude origin for dinosaurs

Palaeontologists have described a new genus and species of Carcharodontosauridae, Tameryraptor markgrafi, based on material from the Bahariya Formation in Egypt.

Paleontologists in the United States have uncovered the fossilized remains of a new species of sauropodomorph dinosaur that lived in the northern hemisphere (supercontinent Laurasia) during the Carnian age of the Late Triassic epoch…

Fossil amphibian offers insights into the interplay between monsoons and amphibian evolution in palaeoequatorial Late Triassic systems..

Daily records of over 53 years in a 10 million-year-old giant clam offer a glimpse of climate variability in the late Miocene

The earliest dinosaurs likely emerged in a hot equatorial region in what was then the supercontinent Gondwana, an area of land that encompasses the Amazon, Congo basin, and Sahara Desert today.

Humans, not climate change, may have wiped out Australia’s giant kangaroos

'Dog-Like' Fossil Discovery May Be Oldest Known Saber-Toothed Animal

Study extends chart of life by nearly 1.5 billion years

Toddler’s bones have revealed shocking dietary preferences of ancient Americans

A discovery deep within a cave in Spain has challenged the history of human artistic expression

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