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A 3D modeling built thanks to scans of a shockingly well-preserved megalodon shark vertebrate column helped show just how massive these giant sea creatures were.

This ancient panda relative would likely have lived in the swampy forests of modern-day Bulgaria six million years ago, eating a mostly vegetarian diet.

It was originally thought that marsupial reproduction was more primitive and that placentals were more evolutionarily advanced. Researchers at UW now assert that placentals actually came first.

In 84 of the fossils found in Canada's Yoho National Park, the remains of the brain and nerves are still preserved after 506 million years.

Irish paleontologists have uncovered why hundreds of fossil frogs were buried under an ancient swamp millions and millions of years ago.

Miners discovered the frozen remains while conducting excavations on the permafrost.

study used a new dating method to date when the rocks and the fossil were first buried underground.

A fossil of a 125-million-year old dinosaur showed proof of belly buttons in at least some dinosaurs, making it the first time one has been spotted in a non-avian dinosaur.

The large eggs have been at the center of controversy since researchers first discovered the 50,000-year-old eggshell fragments 40 years ago.

A ten-meter-long ichthyosaur was discovered in February last year and excavated over the course of months.