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Artist's rendering of a group of G. blacki within a forest in southern China. Credit: Garcia/Juan-Boyo (Southern Cross University)

3 meter tall apes in East Asia became extinct because they were overspecialized

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In the spectacular karst landscapes of southern China, giant apes, known as Gigantopithecus blacki, once roamed. They were three meters tall and weighed about 250 kilograms. They became extinct about 300 thousand years ago. The reasons for the extinction of these apes remained a mystery for years
Mediterranean. Illustration: depositphotos.com

A historical window to the Mediterranean Sea

Following the drying up of the Mediterranean Sea about five million years ago, valleys developed in its southeast that are about eight kilometers wide and about 1,000 meters deep
Using meticulous and detailed collection methods, a research team led by the University of Minnesota in the Twin Cities was able to place the remains of fossilized apes, such as Morotopithecus, within detailed reconstructions of habitats. Credit: Corbin Rainbolt

Rewriting human evolution: Great apes lived in open habitats 10 million years earlier than expected

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Using rigorous and detailed collection methods, the researchers were able to place the remains of fossilized apes, such as Morotopithecus, in detailed reconstructions of habitats. Credit: Corbin Rainbolt
Mycelia's jaw. Courtesy of Tel Aviv University.

The oldest human fossil outside of Africa is found in Israel

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A skull from Jebel Ayehud. Source: Ryan Somma.

Fossils from Morocco complicate the story of the origin of modern man

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Most types of corals can only exist at depths where sunlight penetrates. Photo: National Park Service.

The corals reveal: the sea will rise, and quickly

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Simulation of the feathered dinosaur Zhenyuanlong. Image: Emily Willoughby/Wikimedia.

How dinosaurs became birds

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The extinct rodent Sayimis negevensis was the distant forerunner of the gondii (also called the comb rats) that exist today in North and East Africa. Photo: The Hebrew University

Fossils of a rodent that went extinct 18 million years ago were found in Israel

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Israel's Fossil Guide. Photo of Arava R&D PR

The first website in Israel and in the world for identifying fossils was launched

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Close-up of potential red blood cells within a fossil deployed using a focused ion beam. Photo: Imperial College

Researchers in the UK: we discovered soft tissue fossils of dinosaurs

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Ichthyosaurs from the Jurassic period. Illustration: shutterstock

Marie Anning - the best dinosaur museum in history

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Reconstruction of a 300-million-year-old tiny carnivore known as Eocasea, within a footprint of the largest herbivore of the period 270 million years ago, the Cotylorhynchus. Illustration: Daniel Dufo

The ancestor of the herbivores was discovered

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Tyrannosaurus. Illustration: shutterstock

The first dinosaurs discovered in Saudi Arabia

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Artist's illustration showing the new horned dinosaur Nasutoceratops titus discovered at Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah. Photography by Lucas Panzan.

A dinosaur fossil with horns and a big nose was discovered

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Tyrannosaurus rex tries to bite the tail of a vegetarian dinosaur - an artist's description of a discovery that a fossilized tooth of a T. rex was found in the body of a drosaur, proof that the T. rex tried to kill its prey itself. Photo: University of Kansas and the Museum of Natural History in Palm Beach

T rex was a hunter and not a scavenger

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Skill-like microstructures inside a 3.4-billion-year-old Halamish stone found in Western Australia. Photo: Christopher House, Penn State University

Early life: Plankton fossils have been discovered in three billion year old rocks

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A fossil of Eunotosaurus, one of the ancestors of the modern turtle that allowed researchers to decipher the evolution of the turtle's shell

How did turtles get their shells?

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Ultraviolet (UV) photograph of Keuppia arms

Eight BC

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This is a flesh reconstruction of an embryonic dinosaur inside an egg. (Credit: ArtworReconstruction of a dinosaur embryo inside the egg. (Credit: Artwork by D. Mazierski)k by D. Mazierski)

Scientists have managed to extract organic remains from 160 million year old fossilized dinosaur embryos

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Ukhaatherium nessovi, a giant Cretaceous-age animal discovered in 1994 in Mongolia's Gobi Desert by the Mongolian Academy of Sciences and the American Museum of Natural History, is one of the many mammals used to study the placental mammal tree of life. When the tiny creature's remarkably well-preserved skeleton was discovered This time, the researchers were surprised to find the presence of epipubic bones, which were attached to both sides of the groin. Today this feature is only found in egg-laying mammals such as the duck and marsupial mammals such as the kangaroo. But their presence in this fossil showed that the first placental mammals also shared the same feature.

The oldest placental mammals, lived right after the end of the dinosaur period

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An illustration comparing a modern man (on the right) with an ancient man (next to him, reminiscent of a monkey), next to an ancient crocodile - the larger of the two and a Yaor crocodile. Illustration: Chris Brochu, University of Iowa.

The largest crocodile that ever lived could swallow a man

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Australopithecus sediva, from Wikipedia

New great grandmother? Science reports the discovery of an important link in human evolution

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3.4 billion year old microscopic fossils discovered in Western Australia. Photo: University of Western Australia and University of Oxford

The oldest fossil was discovered - bacteria 3.4 billion years old

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Jurassic spider fossil discovered in China

Largest fossil spider

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Common European viper

How did snakes' venomous teeth develop? Finally the answer was found

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