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This Weird Animal Eats Rocks for Breakfast
By Laura Geggel published
Rocks might not sound like a delectable meal to most life-forms, but it's on the menu for a newly identified species of a plump, bizarre-looking clam.

Please Do Not Feed These Tweezer-Beaked, Hopping Rats Peanut Butter!!!
By Rafi Letzter published
These kangaroo-like rats turn up their long, toothless snouts at peanut butter, but they love earthworms.

Iridescent Bones of a Lost Dinosaur Herd Discovered in an Opal Mine
By Yasemin Saplakoglu published
Gemstones are precious, especially when they come filled with dinosaur bones.

Car-Size 'Sea Monster' Terrorized Triassic Oceans
By Laura Geggel published
A crocodile-like beast the length of a Volkswagen Beetle terrorized prey in the late Triassic oceans about 210 million years ago, a new study finds.

Photos: Tiny Tyrannosaur Dinosaur Was About As Big As T. Rex's Skull
By Laura Geggel published
This 92-million-year-old tyrannosaur was so small, it was only slightly larger than the skull of its mighty relative, Tyrannosaurus rex.

'Beautiful Nightmare' Crab Sported Lobster Shell, Shrimp Mouth and Soccer Ball Eyes
By Laura Geggel published
An ancient crab that lived during the dinosaur age was so strange, paleontologists are calling it the platypus of the crab world.

Photos: Ancient Crab is the Strangest You've Ever Seen
By Laura Geggel published
Here's the strangest crab you may ever lay eyes on.

This Ancient 'Warg' Was Scarier Than a Tolkien Beast, Terrorized Kenya 22 Million Years Ago
By Laura Geggel published
This newly discovered, but now extinct carnivore lived about 22 million years ago in what is now Kenya. It was larger than a polar bear, the largest land-based carnivore alive today.
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