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Fossils from Venezuela show anacondas were already giants 12 million years ago—and have stayed giant ever since.

www.iflscience.com/enormous-ana...

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December 4, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Earth may have a moon today because a nearby neighbor once crashed into us, a new analysis of Apollo samples and terrestrial rocks reveals.

www.livescience.com/space/planet...

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December 4, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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A deep-sea “vampire squid” holds the biggest cephalopod genome ever—and a genetic time capsule of octopus origins.

www.sciencealert.com/vampire-squi...

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December 4, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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In case you missed it: the new Edmontosaurus fossils reveal unexpected details—right down to its first-in-history hooves.

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

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December 3, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Jurassic Park lied: no confirmed venomous dinos…but the mystery isn’t closed.

www.popsci.com/science/veno...

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December 3, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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Learn more about the animals you thought were dinosaurs, and the animal we thought wasn't a dinosaur, but actually is.

www.discovermagazine.com/think-pteros...

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December 3, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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A landmark study of 413 early Jurassic theropod footprints discovered in Southwest China's Sichuan province has provided unprecedented insights into the behavior and movement of carnivorous dinosaurs.

www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202511/28/...

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December 2, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Oxygen surges that powered the Cambrian explosion may trace back to a surprising driver: subtle shifts in Earth’s orbit.

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

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December 2, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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An analysis of a unique looping trail of ancient footprints in the United States reveals the dinosaur which made it may have been limping.

www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

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December 2, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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Bone fragments from Ethiopia show two human ancestors may have shared the same landscape.

www.sciencenews.org/article/foot...

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December 1, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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A tiny, flightless Triassic reptile has revealed that pterosaurs and birds built the brains for flight in completely different ways.

phys.org/news/2025-11...

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December 1, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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Isotopes in fossil teeth suggest ancient animals traveled less—making researchers rethink past human societies and future conservation.

www.sapiens.org/archaeology/...

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December 1, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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We thought we understood the marsupial lion—until fossils hinted at a behavior no one expected.

tetzoo.com/blog/2025/11...

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November 30, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Billionaires are snapping up dinosaur skeletons — but should prehistoric fossils be for sale at all?

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November 30, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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New research suggests Mars stayed wet and potentially habitable far longer than believed.

www.sciencealert.com/mars-was-hab...

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November 30, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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Two wolf-ancestry canids were discovered in a Baltic Sea cave, suggesting humans transported early wolves to islands long before domestication.

sci.news/archaeology/...

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November 29, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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The iconic, armored, 14-foot-long Dunkleosteus was something of an "evolutionary oddball,” a new study has revealed.

www.newsweek.com/fossils-pale...

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November 29, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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A colossal collision between early Earth and a lost world called Theia forged the Moon — and new isotopic clues are revealing what that vanished planet was made of.

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

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November 29, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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A dense dinosaur bonebed in Romania’s Hațeg Basin reveals an ancient island ecosystem that stayed stable for millions of years.

www.thebrighterside.news/post/incredi...

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November 28, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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A paleontological discovery in the Lago Barreales, Neuquén (Argentina) region revealed the existence of a new species of freshwater turtle that inhabited the area approximately 90 million years ago.

noticiasambientales.com/science/new-...

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November 28, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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The world’s largest cave shelters a prehistoric forest—clouds, rivers, ancient fossils, and a hidden ecosystem untouched for millions of years beneath Vietnam.

en.clickpetroleoegas.com.br/The-largest-...

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November 28, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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A team of international scientists from China, Germany and the United States has identified an important assemblage of dinosaur footprints in Wucha village, Renhuai city, Southwest China's Guizhou province.

www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202511/25/...

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November 27, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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A clip from the upcoming series "Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age" shows how iconic ice age creatures adapted to their changing environment as temperatures rose and ice sheets started to melt.

www.livescience.com/animals/exti...

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November 27, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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Researchers have pinpointed a super-Earth in the habitable zone of a nearby M-dwarf star only 18 light-years away, making it a prime candidate in the search for life.

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

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November 27, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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Learn how a common interpretation of Neanderthal noses could be changed due to a skeleton trapped inside a sinkhole.

www.discovermagazine.com/upside-down-...

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November 26, 2025 at 11:19 AM