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Newfound dinosaur with giant, horned headpiece named after iconic Norse god
A newly identified dinosaur with large, ornate horns on its massive head shield has been named after a famous Norse god who sported a similar headpiece in recent Marvel movies.
Huge cheetah that roamed China 1 million years ago would have stood face to face with a tiger
Extinct colossal cat Acinonyx pleistocaenicus was the biggest species of cheetah to have ever lived, scientists reveal.
Kids discover extremely rare teen T. rex fossils sticking out of the ground during North Dakota Badlands hike
'Teen Rex' is about to go on display for the first time and appear in a new T. rex documentary, thanks to a discovery made by three young boys.
If you thought T. rex had tiny arms, wait until you see this apex predator's ridiculously tiny appendages
Newly discovered dinosaur — the apex predator of its environment — had a weirdly flat skull compared to its contemporaries, along with ridiculously small arms.
'Archaeological sensation': Winemaker discovers hundreds of mammoth bones while renovating his cellar
Researchers have excavated over 300 bones from at least three mammoths in an Austrian wine cellar, potentially suggesting they were butchered by humans.
65 million-year-old cow relative looked like a chinchilla and weighed only a pound
Militocodon lydae, a mammal that looked like a chinchilla but is more closely related cows, roamed what is now Colorado after the nonavian dinosaurs went extinct.
T. rex was as smart as a crocodile, not an ape, according to study debunking controversial intelligence findings
A new study debunks previous findings that the dinosaur's intelligence was similar to that of primates, finding instead that they're about as smart as modern-day crocodiles.
15 extinct giants that once roamed North America
Countdown Until the end of the last ice age, American cheetahs, enormous armadillolike creatures and giant sloths called North America home. But it's long puzzled scientists why these animals went extinct about 10,000 years ago.
