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Paleontology

Almost 2,000 paleoburrows have been found across South America, mostly in the Brazilian states of Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul, which border Uruguay and Argentina.

Get a glimpse of southern Brazil’s paleoburrows — dug by prehistoric animals

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Across southern Brazil, thousands of tunnels dug by prehistoric animals have been discovered in recent years. It’s opening up a whole new branch of paleontology. But researchers face plenty of challenges in trying to study and preserve the paleoburrows. 

The dueling dinosaurs were fossilized while apparently locked in battle.

‘Dueling dinos’ set off a long legal battle and a scientific debate

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an illustration of a dinosaur

Five reasons why 2018 was a big year for paleontology

sloth

In fossilized footprints, evidence of humans, a giant sloth, and ‘the killer blow’

Phytosaur fossil

Rare fossils could face trouble outside new Bears Ears National Monument boundaries

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Contrary to classic depictions of a tyrannosaurus rex, paleoartist Gabriel Ugueto says that the massive carnivores likely were covered in small feathers on the top of their bodies.

Turns out, dinosaurs probably had feathers. This artist is using science to draw more accurate pictures.

Arts

Think you know what a tyrannosaurus rex looked like? Based on recent fossil findings, you may be surprised.

A man looks at a Neanderthal fossil at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

A new fossil may date humanity’s ancestor further back than we thought

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No one quite knows when humanity’s direct ancestors — the Homo genus — first evolved, but a fossil discovered in Ethiopia in 2013 may provide clues. And according to new studies, those clues point back further into time than was previously thought.

Don Johnson, a former park ranger, on a fossil walk near his home on the Bonavista Peninsula in Newfoundland. As a kid, he used to climb on these rocks, but he says people here never know the fossils in these rocks were so significant.

A fossil flexes its muscle in Newfoundland, but it can’t keep thieves away

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Newfoundlanders hope a major fossil find will bring new tourists to the area. But history suggests that fossil thieves will also make their way north.

The World

Meet the new horse-headed, 35-foot-long, beaked Deinocheirus mirificus

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Some scientists are describing the newly discovered dinosaur known as Deinocheirus mirificus as freaking weird. How did a 35-foot long, omnivorous, horse headed, hump-backed, huge armed animal live?

An artist's impression of feathered dinosaurs

Was T. Rex actually pink and covered in feathers?

Environment

A new fossil found in Siberia suggests the possibility that all dinosaurs had feathers, not just the last ones, which became birds. So maybe T-Rex was pink and feathery?A new fossil found in Siberia suggests the possibility that all dinosaurs had feathers, not just the last ones, which became birds. So maybe T-Rex was pink and feathery?