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11 Prehistoric Creatures That Are Pure Nightmare Fuel

When some of the more entrepreneurial lifeforms started moving from water to land some 390 million years ago, things soon got ...
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The Biggest Marine Reptile Ever Was Accidentally Discovered By An 11-Year-Old Kid

Move over, professional paleontologists - the next generation of fossil hunters has arrived! In a discovery that would make Mary Anning proud, 11-year-old Ruby Reynolds stumbled upon what would turn ...
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12-million-year-old porpoise fossil found in Peru

Ernesto BENAVIDES/AFP/AFP Peruvian paleontologists on Wednesday unveiled the 12-million-year-old fossil of a prehistoric porpoise found near the country's Pacific coast. The fossil, which measures 3.5 ...
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Prehistoric mammals, a new world / written by Melvin Berger ; design and paper engineering by Keith Moseley ; illustrated by Robert Cremins

Explores the world of prehistoric mammals, comparing them to their modern descendants. Pop-up sections feature three-dimensional skeletons and some pull tabs.
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72-million-year-old fossil found near Utah leads to discovery of muskrat-sized prehistoric mammal

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Tiny fossil with razor teeth found by student — rewrites mammal history

A university student on a fossil-hunting field trip in Dorset made a stunning discovery: a 145-million-year-old jawbone belonging to a previously unknown mammal species with razor-like teeth. With the ...