Ancient Velociraptor cousin glided on four wings and hunted birds
A fossil bed in northwestern China has been telling a strange story for years. Scattered through its rocks are the remains of ...
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New species of microraptor dinosaur was a cousin of the dreaded Velociraptor
A single fossilized arm led scientists to discover Jian changmaensis, a new species of feathered microraptor dinosaur.
Rare deep-sea goblin sharks filmed in natural habitat for first time
The first published live observations of the rare goblin shark (Mitsukurina owstoni) in its natural deep-ocean habitat were ...
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Scientists have finally identified the New Mexico reptile that had puzzled paleontologists for decades
The Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology published the formal identification of Labrujasuchus expectatus in May, solving the ...
11-Year-Old Thought He Found a Few Bones. He Had Actually Discovered an 85-Million-Year-Old Sea Predator
Corbin Bullard was on a geology club field trip when he stumbled upon what turned out to be a 15-foot-long marine reptile ...
Smithsonian Magazine
Meet the ‘Witch Croc,’ a Strange Ancient Crocodile Relative With Two Legs and No Teeth That Roamed New Mexico During the Triassic
The reptile, a dinosaur look-alike called a shuvosaur, represents a long-awaited discovery that helps paleontologists fill a ...
Fossil discovery shows the interaction between giant marine reptiles
Approximately 160 million years ago, during the Age of Dinosaurs, giant marine reptiles ruled the seas. One such creature, an ...
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This Species Was Long Thought Extinct—Scientists Just Spotted One Alive and Well on a Carribean Island
The Cozumel dwarf fox, a rare species previously known only from secondhand reports and fossil records, has been discovered ...