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An artist’s illustration of a giant tyrannosaur watching the duckbill dinosaur ‘Parasaurolophus’ in New Mexico during the late Cretaceous (74-75 million years ago).

‘Unusually large’ tyrannosaur leg bone points to 10,000-pound behemoth

By Laura Baisas

Illustration showing Tanyka amnicola in life, eating underwater plants.

Bizarro salamander ancestor was an evolutionary oddball

an illustration of a dinosaur biting another dinosaur

A Tyrannosaurus tooth embedded in dinosaur skull tells a violent story

By Laura Baisas

Thresher shark seen from below swimming in ocean

Ancient sharks once swam in this landlocked state

Artist illustration of Archaeopteryx

Weird bird mouths go all the way back to the first avian dinosaur

a man hold a dinosaur footprint in a lab

Teen discovers Australia’s oldest dinosaur fossil—almost 70 years ago

By Laura Baisas

Illustration of sailbacked dinosaur vomiting stomach contents

Oldest fossilized dinosaur vomit discovered in Germany

Group of red kangaroos running in Australia

550-pound Ice Age kangaroos could still hop

Paleontologists excavating sandstone encased dinosaur fossils from parking lot dig site

Dinosaur bones found underneath parking lot in Dinosaur, Colorado

A part of a fossilized mammal skull, with sediment in a tooth socket that turned out to be a nest built by a prehistoric bee.

Ancient bees laid eggs inside bones

Left lateral view of catalog number USNM PAL 803273, a Pachycephalosaurus skull, from the Late Cretaceous Period, Maastrichtian stage (approximately 68 to 66 million years ago), Hell Creek Formation, Perkins County, South Dakota. The skull is largely complete with missing areas restored, while the lower jaw - not photographed - is reconstructed. This specimen is from the Department of Paleobiology collections at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History. Catalog record EZID: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3a8ba3bb9-dcf1-437e-ba8c-d627cbdfaf3c

A ‘spectacular’ dinosaur dome heads for the Smithsonian

Mosasaur eating prey in water with dinosaurs behind it

Mosasaurs may have terrorized rivers as well as oceans

Close-up of the mass of rocks in the throat of Chromeornis (the rocks are the gray mass just to the left of the neck bones).

Why did this ancient bird die with tiny rocks in its throat?

Fragments of BRT-VP-2/135 before assembly. The specimen was found in 29 pieces of which 27 of them were recovered by sifting and picking the sifted dirt.

Prehistoric foot bones finally linked to our early ancestors

a large geode with purple and white gems

A 1,000-pound geode, mosasaur skeleton, and head to auction

By Popular Science Team

Fossilized fish skull attached to fossilized digestive tract

Decapitated fish fossils depict Late Jurassic food chain

A reconstruction of Breugnathair elgolensis

Cat-sized Jurassic reptile had the jaws of a python

sea sponge among coral underwater

Sea sponges may have been Earth’s first living creatures

a tyrannosaur skeleton on display in a musuem

Amateur paleontologist opens fossil museum in rural Minnesota

By Sara Kiley Watson

Homo habilis mandible shown with the two tooth pits that were documented and magnified separately.

Leopards may have feasted on our earliest ancestors