‘Chipmunk shark’ lurked 340 million years ago. Its teeth were just found in Kentucky
A shark no larger than a human hand that stalked the ancient sea floor 340 million years ago has been dubbed the “chipmunk ...
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Paleontologists Just Identified A 240-Million-Year-Old Salamander With ‘Gnarly Teeth’ And Skin Intact
Scientists in Australia just identified a new species of primitive amphibian with "gnarly teeth" that lived in the rivers of ...
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A New Study Finds That Domestic Cats Traveled the Silk Road to China About 1,400 Years Ago
Per the study, China’s oldest known domestic cat lived in the central province of Shaanxi between 706 and 883, during the ...
Misha the elephant lived in zoos, but her tooth enamel helps reconstruct wildlife migrations
Teeth recovered from a beloved zoo elephant that died in 2008 are helping University of Utah geologists develop a method for ...
This extinct tree-dwelling mammal may be among humans’ closer relatives
Mixodectes belonged to an extinct family known as mixodectids and lived during the Paleocene epoch. This geological epoch ...
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Bite Mechanics Could Help Reveal If Rumors Of Rat-Kangaroo’s Death Are Exaggerated
Although declared extinct in 1994, people claim to have seen desert rat-kangaroos since, and analysis of their museum ...
A 62-million-year-old skeleton sheds light on an enigmatic mammal
Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that inhabited western North America in the early Paleocene, was a mystery.
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