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The Sciences

Ancient Humans Hunted 20-Foot-Tall Sloths and Likely Caused the Mammal's Extinction

Skate face

You May Have Sensitive Teeth Because of This 465-Million-Year-Old Fish

Horse grazing

Planet Earth

Ancient Horse Fossils Reveal Migration Patterns During the Late Pleistocene

Glacier in Alaska

Sediment from the Last Ice Age Found in an Alaskan Cave Provides Both History and Forecast 

 Litoria tylerantiqua and Platyplectrum casca 

Fossils Show That These Ancient Frog Families Split Apart at Least 55 Million Years Ago

Ancient Reptile Footprints

Animals May Have Evolved from Sea to Land 35 Million Years Earlier Than Once Thought

Archaeopteryx Under Light

UV Light Helps Us Understand Why the Archaeopteryx Was Such a Good Flier 

Argentine black and white tegu

AI Helps Identify Fossil of Prehistoric Tegu That Lived in Florida 16 Million Years Ago

Evolution after the Cretaceous Thermal Maximum

The Tyrannosaurus Rex Origin Story May Not Have Started in North America

3D models of the skull of typical species before and after the Cenomanian-Turonian transition

Fierce, Aquatic Reptilian Predators Disappeared After an Ancient Climate Change Event

Balaeonognathus

Ancient Footprints Reveal When Giant Flying Reptiles Took to the Ground

Palaeoloxodon turkmenicus

This Elephant Lived in Europe for 700,000 Years — Could It Live There Today? 

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古生物学

古代人类猎杀了 20 英尺高的树懒，很可能导致了这种哺乳动物的灭绝

你之所以牙齿敏感，可能是因为这种4.65亿年前的鱼

古代马化石揭示了晚更新世的迁徙模式

阿拉斯加洞穴中发现的末次冰期沉积物提供了历史和预测

化石显示这些古老蛙类家族至少在5500万年前就已分化

动物可能比最初认为的早 3500 万年从海洋进化到陆地

紫外光帮助我们理解始祖鸟为何是出色的飞行者

人工智能帮助识别1600万年前生活在佛罗里达州的史前美洲蜥化石

霸王龙的起源故事可能并非始于北美

凶猛的、水生的爬行动物掠食者在一次古气候变化事件后消失

古代足迹揭示巨型飞行动物何时踏上陆地

这头大象在欧洲生活了70万年——它今天还能在那里生存吗？

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