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Huge mammoth jaw at least 10,000 years old pulled up from Florida river
Fossil enthusiast John Kreatsoulas thought the artifact was a log, before he realized he was holding a bone from the last ice age.
Flesh-eating 'killer' lampreys that lived 160 million years ago unearthed in China
Scientists have described two lamprey fossils with "extensively toothed" mouths from the Jurassic period, shining a light on how this group has evolved into its modern forms since the Devonian.
Girl discovers 100,000-year-old mammoth bones in Russian river while fishing with dad
An 8-year-old girl discovered the bones of a woolly mammoth and a prehistoric bison after a landslide along the banks of a river in western Russia.
Ancient skeletons of largest-ever marsupial unearthed in Australia
Diprotodon dates back to the Pleistocene epoch and is a giant relative of wombats and koalas.
Low water levels in Lake Powell reveal 'extremely rare' fossils from extinct Jurassic mammal relative
Researchers documenting fossil tracks in March discovered the first tritylodontid fossils ever found in the Navajo Sandstone and rushed to retrieve them before snowmelt replenished Lake Powell.
Oldest evidence of Neanderthals hunting cave lions dates to 48,000 years ago, punctured bones reveal
Scientists analyzing cave lion bones have discovered the earliest evidence of Neanderthals hunting a cave lion, as well as the oldest example of human relatives using a lion pelt for cultural purposes.
75 million-year-old 'forgotten lord of the oasis' titanosaur fossils from Egypt fill a 'black hole' in dinosaur history
A newly described titanosaur species, named after an ancient Egyptian deity, fills a gap in our understanding of Africa's dinosaurs.
Giant never-before-seen long-necked 'titan' dinosaur unearthed in Europe
The newly identified titanosaur, Garumbatitan morellensis, roamed what is now Spain around 122 million years ago. The unusual shape of some of its bones could hold clues about the evolutionary history of a unique group of sauropods.
'They seemed primed to take over': How the Great Dying doomed the 'beast tooth' and set the stage for the dawn of the dinosaurs
This excerpt from Michael Mann's latest book looks at the Cambrian explosion, the Great Dying and how dinosaurs were able to take over thanks to changes to the climate 250 million years ago.
