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Modern life makes us tired, right? But research from societies in Africa and South America suggests people in the ancient ...

This fossil is 13 million years older than any ant fossil found before—and reveals a sophisticated predator that lived ...

Deinosuchus, whose name translates to 'terrible crocodile' in English, is the subject of today's video - this gigantic, ten metre long ambush predator was found across both sides of the Western ...

One of the largest crocodilians that ever lived preyed on dinosaurs. New research has found the fearsome Deinosuchus had a ...

A groundbreaking study on dinosaur populations leading up to their extinction points to sampling biases within the fossil ...

The apparent decline may be due to breaks in the fossil record, not an actual extinction event. Image source: National Geographic A new study indicates that dinosaurs may not have been declining ...

“Dinosaurs were probably not inevitably doomed to extinction at the end of the Mesozoic,” Chiarenza said. “If it weren’t for that asteroid, they might still share this planet with ...

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