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80-million-year-old fossils expose dinosaurs’ fatal bone infection

Eighty million years ago, in what is now Brazil, a silent killer impacted the giants of the land. New research reveals that sauropods, the magnificent long-necked dinosaurs, succumbed to a severe bone ...

A Giant Hot Blob is Heading Toward New York City—and It May Be Capable of Dividing Continents

The hot zone on which the study focused is a feature called the Northern Appalachian Anomaly (NAA), residing deep beneath the ...
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80 million-year-old fossil of marine crocodile with needle-sharp teeth found in Egypt

Fossilized remains of a long-snouted crocodile-like reptile have been uncovered in Egypt’s Western Desert. Paleontologists from Mansoura University have named the new species of ancient crocodile as ...
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Giant hidden heat blob slowly travels beneath the U.S.

An immense pocket of hot rock deep beneath the Appalachians may be a wandering relic of the breakup between Greenland and North America 80 million years ago. Researchers suggest this slow-moving ...
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Earliest long-snouted fossil crocodile from Egypt reveals the African origins of seagoing crocs

Lead author Sara Saber (Assiut University / MUVP), pictured with the holotype specimen of Wadisuchus kassabi (MUVP 180) at the Mansoura University Vertebrate Paleontology Center, Mansoura, Egypt. In ...