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3 million years ago, this brutish giant petrel likely eviscerated dead seals with its knife-like beak
Fossils from New Zealand reveal the existence of a giant petrel with a wicked sharp beak that lived 3 million years ago.
Giant ancient fish that likely preyed on humans' ancestors unearthed in South Africa
Researchers in South Africa have unearthed 360 million-year-old fossils belonging to a newly described voracious fish species that preyed on our ancestors.
Never-before-seen pterosaur had nearly 500 teeth and ate like a flamingo
A never-before-seen species of pterosaur had hundreds of hooked teeth that helped it filter its food in a similar way to living flamingos.
Bloom entombed in amber is the largest fossilized flower ever found
The fossilized flower is the largest ever discovered.
10 stunning fossils from 2022 that didn't come from dinosaurs
Not all the best fossils belong to dinosaurs. Here are some of our favorite non-dino fossil stories dug up in 2022.
7-foot-long arthropods commanded the sea 470 million years ago, 'exquisite' fossils show
About 470 million years ago, 7-foot-long arthropods ruled the water in what is now Morocco.
Likeness of Cambrian critter finally revealed, and it looks like a taco
Thanks to soft-tissue preservation, we now know what Tuzoia, a Cambrian arthropod first discovered 100 years ago, actually looked like.
Mangled 'dragon' fossils were cooked by ancient continents colliding to form Pangaea
Warped amphibian-like fossils in Ireland were likely transformed by superheated fluids that were released as ancient continents crashed into one another around 300 million years ago.
Monstrous 'gorgons' survived a mass extinction, but they were a 'dead clade walking'
About 90% of all species went extinct during the "Great Dying" around 252 million years ago, but in the case of one paleo-beast — the so-called gorgon — reports of its death were greatly exaggerated, new research finds.
