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Oldest Ankylosaur Fossils Ever Found Show Massive Spiky Armor Unlike Anything Ever Seen Before
One great example of this is the Ankylosaur, which is a herbivore that is best known for having armored plates on the body and a bony ‘club’ at the end of its tail. The oldest known fossil of this ...
At 11 feet (3.4m) tall and nearly 27 feet (8.2m) long, Cooper’s pointy-backed herbivore – affectionately known as Apex – is ...
In Mongolia’s Gobi Desert, researchers uncovered a remarkably complete fossil of a dome-headed dinosaur that lived 108 million years ago. Nicknamed the “precious one,” this teenage pachycephalosaur is ...
The 110 million-year-old fossil of a nodosaur preserves the animal’s armor, skin, and what may have been its final meal.
One of Colorado's most astonishing and coincidental fossil discoveries was found earlier this year, right beneath the parking lot of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, museum officials announced ...
(CNN) — The phrase “leave no stone unturned” has taken on new meaning for paleontologists at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science who discovered a special fossil hidden right under their noses — ...
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Largest Tadpole Fossil Ever Found Reveals That Huge Frogs Thrived During The Jurassic Period 161 Million Years Ago
When most people think of the Jurassic period of the Earth, they picture massive dinosaurs. What they don’t often think about is frogs, but perhaps they should. It has long been known that various ...
Over 100 million years ago, long before the extinction of land-dwelling dinosaurs, there lived a group of massive clams called Inoceramus. With some species having shells up to 6.5 feet wide, they ...
“When we came across that, we all just kind of stared at each other for a minute, like ‘This is it,’” said Adrienne Coleman, ...
A million-year-old fossil skull of a Stegodon, an extinct relative of elephants, has been discovered in Solana, Cagayan. The rare find provides new insights into the ancient wildlife and geological ...
Paleontologists recovered part of a dinosaur fossil deep beneath the Denver Museum of Nature and Science's parking lot. - Richard M. Wicker/Denver Museum of Nature and Science The phrase “leave no ...
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