Ancient 'Jaws' had monster bite
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A prehistoric sea monster that lived 400 million years ago had the most powerful bite of any known fish.
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A freshman geology student on a field trip stumbled across the fossil of an oversized, salamander-like creature with vicious crocodile-like teeth that lived about 300 million years ago, paleontologists said.
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Fans of The Lord of the Rings may be interested to know that a remote Indonesian island has yielded the remains of pint-size people - a surprising new human species â-hat paleontologists say lived just 18,000 years ago.
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Scientists have found fossil skeletons of a human species that grew no larger than a three-year-old modern child. The species lived with pygmy elephants and Komodo dragons on a remote island in Indonesia.
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A sharp rise in global temperatures about 50 million years ago may have been responsible for the evolution of bats, Science magazine reports.
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SPACE.com / Insect bite marks in ancient leaf fossils are shedding new light on how nature bounced back after an asteroid impact killed off the dinosaurs and much of life on Earth 65 million years ago.
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A white shark in captivity could offer new insights on the mysterious and feared creature.
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CALGARY, Alberta - A fossilized jaw found in an Alberta gravel pit may have cleared up a mystery for researchers wondering how brown bears originally made it across North America.
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Two disaster movies visit ancient history and the near future to tell disquietingly relevant stories
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A feud flares over an ancient skull that may or may not have belonged to a new species of human
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Fossils from two newly discovered  meat-eating dinosaurs that lived in the Sahara Desert 110  million years ago paint a fearsome picture of life in Africa's  Cretaceous period, which appears to have been teeming with  unusual carnivores.
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SYDNEY - The discovery of a skeleton of a female barely one metre tall who hunted pygmy elephants and giant rats 18000 years ago could force a reassessment of the origins of humanity, scientists in Australia said yesterday.
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Fossils of ancient marine reptiles that lived 230 million years ago show the prehistoric creatures gave birth to live young, scientists said on Wednesday.
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WASHINGTON -- A newly discovered fossil might be the remains of one of the first stealth hunters, a swimming dinosaur that could use its long neck to sneak up on prey and strike without warning.
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THE DISCOVERY: A University of Pittsburgh geology student on a field trip stumbles across the fossil of an oversized, salamander-like creature that lived about 300 million years ago.
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From the sands of the Sahara, scientists have uncovered the bones of two new ferocious dinosaur predators - one that makes the kills and another that feasts on the leftovers.
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Ancient bison DNA may help explain a longstanding mystery of North American wildlife: why mammoths, North American lions, short-faced bears and many other large mammals disappeared about 10,000 years ago.