Edmontosaurus “Mummies” found with History’s First Hooves
Paleontologists have unveiled two exceptionally preserved “mummy” specimens of Edmontosaurus annectens, a well-known duck-billed dinosaur.
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Fossil news from the USA: Grand Canyon creatures, Edmontosaurus mummies, Utah’s monstersaur, Appalachian deer and a turtle that survived.
65-million Year Old Turtle Could Explain How to Survive Extinctions
Paleontologists have found a new species of turtle in Colorado that is dated right to the Cretaceous-Paleocene boundary, and survived the extinction.
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80-million year gap in horsehoe crab fossil record filled
Horseshoe crabs are called ‘living fossils’, but even so, we know surprisingly little about their early evolution, until the late Devonian.
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Huge Cretaceous Monstersaur Lived With Dinosaurs; Now Discovered in Museum Jar
Paleontologists undertook an arduous deep dig in trenches of… a museum in Utah. They found armored lizard bones. Named Bolg amondol, this newly identified lizard lived in the Late Cretaceous, around 76 million years ago.
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Extraordinary 507-Million-Year-Old Creatures From the Grand Canyon
A jaw-dropping fossil cache was found in the Grand Canyon. In a 2023 expedition along the Colorado River, paleontologists led
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5-Million Old Fossil is the Oldest Appalachian Deer
In Tennessee’s Gray Fossil Site, paleontologists have found fossils of an ancient deer, Eocoileus gentryorum, dating to the early pliocene.
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