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125 million-year-old fossil of giant venomous scorpion that lived alongside dinosaurs discovered in ChinaExtremely rare fossil of an ancient scorpion unearthed at China's Jehol Biota. The scorpion would've been a key species in the Cretaceous ecosystem, scientists say.
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Giant flying squirrels as big as cats once lived in TennesseeResearchers have identified a giant flying squirrel fossil from a cache of unusual animal remains dug out of an ancient sinkhole in Tennessee 25 years ago. The fossil sheds light on how flying squirrels reached North America.
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What if a giant asteroid had not wiped out the dinosaurs?Nonavian dinosaurs have been extinct for 66 million years, but what would have happened if they'd survived?
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'A set of large teeth sticking out of the ground': Scientists reveal ancient hypercarnivore discovered in Egyptian desertScientists reveal a never-before-seen species of leopard-size apex predator that lived in lush forest 30 million years ago.
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Divers discover 500,000-year-old treasure trove of fossils in Florida sinkholeDivers in Florida’s Steinhatchee River stumbled upon hundreds of pristine fossils from an obscure Ice Age period, including giant armadillos, ancient horses and possibly a new species of tapir.
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Secrets of 1st dinosaurs lie in the Sahara and Amazon rainforest, study suggestsThe first dinosaurs may have evolved near the equator, and not in the southwest of the supercontinent Gondwana, as researchers previously assumed due to an abundance of fossils in places like Argentina and Zimbabwe.
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'Sexy' pterosaur tail should have been nightmare for flying. How did it work?The first pterosaurs had a sail-like tensioning system for flying with potentially cumbersome tail vanes, which they could have used for displays, a new study finds.
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Giant horned dinosaur's fossils were destroyed in WWII — but photos reveal it was an unknown speciesScientists have unveiled a giant horned dinosaur from Egypt called Tameryraptor markgrafi after discovering lost photos of fossils destroyed in WWII.
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World's tiniest cat was a palm-sized tiddler that lived in China 300,000 years agoScientists identified the tiny species of cat from a fossilized jawbone, which could date back as far as 300,000 years ago.
