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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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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Scientists have found a fossil of a  "Monster" fish-like reptile in a 150 million-year-old Jurassic  graveyard on an Arctic island off Norway.
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A newly discovered fossil could 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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Experts believe a sore tooth may have led a Tanzanian lion to go on a human killing spree instead of hunting buffalo.
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Scientists have found a fossil of a "Monster" fish-like reptile in a 150 million-year-old Jurassic graveyard on an Arctic island off Norway.
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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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Two newly discovered fossils show that a few early mammals were as large as a dog and spunky enough to devour juvenile dinosaurs.
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A dino-era graveyard of large, predatory sea reptiles has been found by fossil hunters, including the remains of an estimated 33-foot-long (10-meter-long) beast dubbed "the Monster."&#149; Arctic sea monster images >>
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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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The finding of a dinosaur fossil in southern China has given new clues to the evolution and hunting practices of a long-necked aquatic reptile that lived some 230 million years ago, the magazine Science said on Thursday.
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A new study of the skeleton of a one-meter-high race of âhobbitsâ that lived 12,000 years ago in Indonesia shows that they were a species of humanâand that the evolutionary path to Homo sapiens has been torturous indeed.
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Brazilian paleontologists said  on Thursday they had found the fossil of a new species of  prehistoric predator that represented a "missing link" to  modern-day crocodiles.
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Science & environment: Fearsome dinosaur made famous in the Jurassic Park films probably more closely resembled a big turkey, scientists have discovered.
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A frog the size of a bowling ball, with heavy armor and teeth, lived among dinosaurs millions of years ago Â intimidating enough that scientists who unearthed its fossils dubbed the beast Beelzebufo, or Devil Toad.
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PITTSBURGH - Paleontologists are hailing the discovery by a first-year geology student of a new species of amphibian, a salamander-like creature that lived 300 million years ago.
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Two fossil finds in China suggest that prehistoric mammals were bigger and badder than previously thought. At least one even ate dinosaurs for dinner.