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Grapes may have first grown in the Americas, not Europe, study finds
The lush, tropical regions of Central and South America have long dazzled scientists with their plant diversity. These ...
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Researchers Discovered 60-Million-Year-Old Fossil of Giant Possum in Texas's Big Bend National Park
A 60-million-year-old fossil initially speculated to be either a Cretaceous metatherian or an Eocene metatherian turned out ...
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Digging up New Jersey’s past
Teeth from extinct species like Otodus obliquus (an ancestor of the legendary Megalodon) are commonly found in New Jersey’s ...
Proteins from rhino fossil found in Nunavut crater dated to 20 million years
Scientists studying a 21 to 24-million-year-old rhino fossil found in the Haughton Crater on Nunavut's Devon Island say the high Arctic environment preserved the oldest recoverable ancient proteins ...
North America’s oldest pterosaur, a winged reptile, discovered in Arizona
The 209-million-year-old fossil offers clues to the evolution of the reptiles, which have more than 150 named species ...
North America's oldest known pterosaur unearthed in Petrified Forest National Park
A Smithsonian-led team of researchers have discovered North America's oldest known pterosaur, the winged reptiles that lived ...
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North America's oldest known pterosaur discovered in a petrified forest
A rare Triassic fossil site reveals North America's oldest known pterosaur, Eotephradactylus mcintireae, in what was once a ...
Paleontologists Discover One of North America's Earliest Flying Reptiles
From what the researchers were able to gather, the new species of pterosaur—dubbed Eotephradactylus mcintireae after Suzanne ...
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A Bone Bed From the Dawn of the Dinosaurs Has Revealed the Oldest Known Pterosaur Found in North America
Paleontologists know the bone bed as PFV 393. The late fossil preparator Bill Amaral found the site in 2011 on a field trip ...