In low-latitude North China, riparian ecosystems began to recover 2–3 million years after the end-Permian mass extinction.

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Although Slovakia is now a landlocked country, its territory was partly covered by the sea about 12-13 millions of years ago.

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Researchers at SMU and the Perot Museum have identified a new species of mosasaur, a 'T. rex of the sea' that lived alongside ...

Trove of fossils discovered in Canada sheds light on "when life first became large, complex and unmistakenly animal." ...

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Scientists figured out that the predators were lumped in with a previously named mosasaur species. The new one, called ...

The discovery of the Glauberg Celtic Prince in Hesse, Germany, stands as one of the most extraordinary archaeological finds ...

The companies that drilled these cores were largely unaware that within these mudstones were fossils of microscopic organisms ...

In National Geographic's inaugural edition of the Stones & Bones newsletter, we travel to the far reaches of Argentina to ...