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Different dinosaur species may have really traveled together like in the movies
A newly discovered trove of fossilized footprints provides what may be the first evidence of prehistoric diversity in ...
Fossil once thought a caterpillar is now the oldest known nonmarine lobopodian
In a twist worthy of a detective novel, a long-misidentified fossil at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) has ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN4h
This Surprising Ancient Reptile Had a Colorful, Corrugated Sail on Its Back. New Research Suggests It Was Used to Communicate
Preserved in tan stone, the fossil of Mirasaura included much of the ancient reptile’s skeleton and a feather-like fan that ...
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Paleontologists Discover a ‘Marvelous’ Triassic Reptile that Sported a Sail of Feather-Like Structures on its Back
During the Triassic period nearly 250 million years ago, a small reptile scurried after insects in the canopy of a lush ...
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Spectacular Triassic reptile had an early kind of feathers
A 247-million-year-old fossil reptile boasted an enormous crest on its back made from feather-like appendages, long before the appearance of feathered dinosaurs ...
Is it a bird? A monkey? No, it's a 'miraculous' new prehistoric reptile
Mirasaura grauvogeli had a featherlike crest and a tail like a monkey. “It's been a long time since I've been so blown away by a new fossil discovery.” ...
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Ancient fossil reveals spiders and their relatives originated in the ocean, not on land
Over 500 million years ago, a small marine creature swam through Cambrian waters. Its name: Mollisonia symmetrica. Long ...