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Has T. rex lost its bite? Menacing 'Jurassic Park' snarl may be wrong
The Tyrannosaurus rex is often shown baring massive, sharp teeth, like the ferocious creature in “Jurassic Park.” But new research suggests that this classic image might be wrong.
I'm a viral ‘Fossil Daddy' — my rocks will knock your socks off
.Fans want him to make their bed rock
'Unusual' 650-pound fossil whale skull found in Maryland, estimated to be 12 million years old
A Pennsylvania family discovered a 650-lb fossil whale skull on the Chesapeake Bay in southern Maryland.
Scientists unearth megaraptors, feathered dinosaur fossils in Chile
Scientists in Chile's Patagonia region are unearthing the southernmost dinosaur fossils recorded outside Antarctica, including remains of megaraptors that would have dominated the area's food chain before their mass extinction.
Divers scour NYC's East River for prehistoric mammoth bones — spurred on by Joe Rogan podcast
Treasure hunters are scouring the city's murky waterway for prehistoric mammoth bones -- lured by a suggestion from a guest on Joe Rogan's podcast that a trove of valuable artifacts...
Megalodon shark tooth discovered by 9-year-old girl in Maryland
Molly Sampson, a 9-year-old fossil hunter, found the tooth of a Megalodon while combing a Calvert County beach in Maryland on the Chesapeake Bay.
152 million-year-old dinosaur fossil unearthed: ‘Perfectly preserved’
Looking pretty good for its age.
Amazing living fossils dating back to dinosaurs found in Arizona
These ancient crustaceans are meager in size but mighty in history.
Want a T. rex skull? Here's how much it'll cost you at this NY auction
Auction house Sotheby’s estimated a jaw-dropping $15 million price tag for the roughly 76 million year-old skull, which is 6.5-feet long and weighs 200 pounds, officials said.
'Bizarre' 430-million-year-old shark skeleton stuns, perplexes scientists
A new species of prehistoric predators was discovered in the Guizhou province of southwest China.
New carnivorous dinosaur species dating back 90M years discovered in Argentina
A team of scientists in Argentina discovered a new species of dinosaur that dates back 90 million years.
82-foot-long dinosaur skeleton found in man's backyard in Portugal
An international team of researchers has unearthed a skeleton possibly belonging to a sauropod dinosaur measuring 39 feet in height and 82 feet in length, which would make it the...
Boy discovers 'find of a lifetime' in South Carolina
Young Riley Gracely of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, traveled to Myrtle Beach, S.C., for vacation along with his family in August.
The Loch Ness monster may be real, scientists now say
Inspiration for the monster is said to have come after the discovery of plesiosaur fossils in 1823.
Watch out T-rex! New giant dino with tiny arms discovered
A fossil of the carnivorous dinosaur, Meraxes gigas, shows that it was 36-feet long and weighed over four tons.
Baby mammoth is almost perfectly preserved after 30,000 years
Paleontologist Dr. Grant Zazula told The Weather Channel that the baby woolly mammoth was found with grass in her intestine.
Inside the final days of the dinosaurs before deadly asteroid fall
Paleontologist Robert DePalma is being compared to Indiana Jones during his quest to find out how dinosaurs lived their last 24 hours, a BBC documentary shows.
Scientists discover ancient cemetery of flying reptiles in Chile's Atacama desert
The remains belong to pterosaurs, scientists determined, flying creatures that lived alongside dinosaurs.
Skull of 'marine monster' — a whale predecessor — found in Peru
Paleontologists have unearthed the skull of a ferocious marine predator, an ancient ancestor of modern-day whales, in Peru, scientists announced.
Fishermen reel in 12,000-year-old mammoth tooth, to donate proceeds to Ukraine
New Hampshire fishermen set out to catch scallops and reeled in a 12,000-year-old fossilized mammoth's tooth.