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Fossil snake discovered in India may have been the largest ever

The vertebrae of Vasuki indicus, a snake that lived 47 million years ago, suggest it could have been as long as 15 metres

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Ancient marine reptile found on UK beach may be the largest ever

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Flightless terror birds stalked Antarctica after the dinosaurs' demise

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Dinosaurs evolved feathers to scare prey, suggests robot experiment

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FIG. 1 Cannibal Pachycormus 32427 (color)_2 https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2023.2294000

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Exquisite Jurassic fossils reveal cannibalism in ancient fish

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Traces of ancient life reveal a 3.4-billion-year-old ecosystem

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Megalodon was nothing like a giant great white shark

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Early fossil identified as new species of Tyrannosaurus

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Attenborough and the Giant Sea Monster,01-01-2024,Sir David Attenborough, Steve Etches,Sir David Attenborough and Steve Etches examine the fossilised snout of a pliosaur in the workshop of the Etches Collection Museum, Kimmeridge, Dorset, UK **STRICTLY EMBARGOED NOT FOR PUBLICATION UNTIL 00:01 HRS ON MONDAY 11TH DECEMBER 2023**,BBC Studios,Screengrab

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Massive pliosaur skull sheds light on ancient sea reptile

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Tiny T. rex fossils may be distinct species – but not everyone agrees

Palaeontologists can’t agree on whether fossils from several small dinosaurs represent juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex or smaller adults of a separate species that lived alongside them

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Unknown animals left birdlike footprints long before birds existed

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Wonthaggi bird tracks affected by modern erosion and marine organisms at Footprint Flats locality.

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Fossil footprints are the oldest traces of birds in Australia

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Sun-blocking dust from asteroid impact drove the dinosaur extinction

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Fish adapted to the deep sea 80 million years earlier than we thought

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