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Carcharocles megalodon strikes again!
Paleontologists have found the traces of an ancient shark attack, probably by the huge Carcharocles megalodon, preserved in a fossil whale bone. Full article →
New fossil mammal from Argentina
Cronopio dentiacutus, a newly discovered late Cretaceous South American mammal, provides for the first time the whole cranial morphology of a dryolestoid. Full article →
Oldest woolly rhino discovered in Tibet
Scientists have discovered the complete skull and lower jaw of a previously unknown and long-extinct animal. They christened it the Tibetan woolly rhino. Full article →
Wasps in dinosaur eggs
Well-preserved fossil insect cocoons have allowed researchers in Argentina to describe how wasps bred in rotting dinosaur eggs.
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Australopithecus sediba: Fossil dates pinpointed with new paleomagnetic data
Researchers have determined the age of Australopithecus sediba, the most recent australopithecine, with greatly improved accuracy at 1.98 million years (± 3,000 years).
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Dinosaurs even bigger than previously thought
A new study says size estimates of dinosaurs need to be revised upwards by as much as ten percent.
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Australia yields fossils of earliest animals known
Princeton scientists may have discovered the oldest fossils of animal bodies, sponge-like creatures that lived about 650 million years ago. Full article →
Oetzi's mossy eatsies
Oetzi the Iceman ate moss. No one has ever found moss in the gut of any other glacier mummy. So this is one Tyrolean iceman who has some explaining to do!
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Male dinosaurs: Super dads?
A new study says male dinosaurs were super dads and possibly polygamists. Full article →
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FEATURED PALEONTOLOGISTS:
Adam Sedgwick (1785–1873). British paleontologist. Namer of the Devonian and Cambrian Periods. Read more >>
Mary Anning (1799-1847). British paleontologist. By some accounts the greatest fossil hunter of the early 19th century. Read more >>
Raymond Dart (1893-1988). Pioneering paleoanthropologist. Discoverer of the Taung Child, he was the first scientist to provide hard evidence that humans originally evolved in Africa. Read more >>
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829). One of the founders of invertebrate paleontology. Long before Darwin, Lamarck proposed that human beings had evolved from apes. Read more >>
Louis Leakey (1903-1972) and Mary Leakey (1913-1996). The paleoanthropologist team that convinced the world that humans first evolved in Africa.
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Charles Lyell (1797-1875). Scottish geologist and paleontologist. Gave the Pliocene Epoch its name. A friend and supporter of Charles Darwin, Lyell, established uniformitarianism as a scientific principle. Read more >>
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