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25 million-year-old 'slasher' dolphin with weird teeth discovered in museum collection
By Kristin Hugo published
Researchers believe the creature, named Nihohae matakoi, used its horizontal teeth to thrash at prey before gulping it down.
Megalodon was a warm-blooded killer, but that may have doomed it to extinction
By Jennifer Nalewicki published
Scientists studied the fossilized teeth of megalodon and determined that the jumbo-size extinct species of shark was warm-blooded.
Deadly cyclone unearths fossils of giant marine creatures that lived 80 million years ago
By Hannah Osborne published
"It's like a giant has walked down the stream-bed, kicking at rocks and boulders as if they were pebbles," Pete Shaw, forest manager of the Forest Lifeforce Restoration Trust, said in a statement.
Blade-like spikes covered newly discovered dinosaur unearthed in the UK
By Harry Baker published
The armored ankylosaur is more closely related to dinosaurs found in China than its UK relatives, hinting at a previously unknown migration for the group.
Enormous 240 million-year-old sea monster had its head torn off in one clean bite
By Hannah Osborne published
Analysis of bite marks on Tanystropheus hydroides, which lived during the Middle Triassic, showed another predator had attacked from above and torn its neck in two.
Could the megalodon still exist today?
By Lydia Smith published
Megalodon once dominated Earth's oceans. Despite vanishing from the fossil record millions of years ago, rumors persist that these gigantic sharks are still alive.
Dinosaur named after 2-faced Roman god could be 'missing link' in duck-billed dinos' evolution
By Harry Baker published
The plant-eating, raptor-like dinosaur lived during a time of great transition around 99 million years ago and was named after the Roman god Janus.
Quarter-ton marsupial that ambled across Australia 3.5 million years ago was 'unlike anything alive today'
By Harry Baker published
The newly described extinct species is closely related to the largest marsupial to ever roam the Earth.
Nearly 6 million-year-old 'elephant graveyard' unearthed in Florida
By Kiley Price published
Paleontologists have uncovered a graveyard of ancient elephant relatives.
Massive dino from Brazil ate 'like a pelican,' controversial new study finds. Why is it causing an uproar?
By Harry Baker published
The study reveals new information about the carnivorous dinosaur Irritator challengeri, but the research has been criticized because the fossils may have been illegally removed from Brazil.
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