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The ancestor of modern ducks and geese may have waddled alongside the dinosaurs
An artistic depiction of the Late Cretaceous modern (crown) bird, Vegavis iaai, pursuit diving for fish in the shallow ocean ...
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Surprising fossils suggest early animals survived outside of water
A new look at fossils from the Cambrian Period around 500 million years ago has revealed that some of the earliest animals ...
Lasers, Waffle Fries and the Secrets in Pterosaurs’ Tails
Above the shores of prehistoric seas and lakes, pterosaurs roamed the skies. They were feathered creatures that ranged in ...
Smithsonian Magazine2d
Scientists Discover ‘Groundbreaking’ Jurassic Fossil That Could Overhaul the Evolutionary History of Birds
Researchers in China found Baminornis zhenghensis, which lived at roughly the same time as the famous Archaeopteryx but ...
500,000 years ago, a bunch of animals fell into a Florida sink hole
Roughly half a million years ago, a group of armadillo-like mammals, horses, and sloths met their end in a sinkhole in what ...
Fossil from 1940 reveals what dinosaur skin looked like
The tissues of the MH7 fossil were so precisely preserved that researchers could study individual skin cells. In some samples ...
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Things to do Feb. 14-20: Chicago Auto Show, Valentine’s Day events, Joffrey Ballet and more
Chicago Auto Show: 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. through Sunday, Feb. 16, and 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday, Feb. 17, at McCormick Place, 2301 ...
Age and burial environment don't hinder soft tissue preservation in dinosaurs, study suggests
Soft tissue preservation in fossils does not seem to depend upon the species, age or burial environment of the fossils in ...