Rare baby dinosaur fossil is full of surprises

By Ashley Strickland, CNN

Updated 1304 GMT (2104 HKT) October 11, 2018

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Part of the scene depicted in the world's oldest cave art, which shows half-animal, half-human hybrids hunting pigs and buffalo.
Photos: Ancient finds
Part of the scene depicted in the world's oldest cave art, which shows half-animal, half-human hybrids hunting pigs and buffalo.
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An ancient Egyptian head cone was first found with the remains of a young woman buried in one of Amarna's graves.
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An ancient Egyptian head cone was first found with the remains of a young woman buried in one of Amarna's graves.
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A lice-like insect was trapped in amber crawling and munching on a dinosaur feather.
Photos: Ancient finds
A lice-like insect was trapped in amber crawling and munching on a dinosaur feather.
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Newly discovered penguin species Kupoupou stilwelli lived after the dinosaurs went extinct and acts as a missing link between giant extinct penguins and the modern penguins in Antarctica today.
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Newly discovered penguin species Kupoupou stilwelli lived after the dinosaurs went extinct and acts as a missing link between giant extinct penguins and the modern penguins in Antarctica today.
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This illustration compares the jaws and teeth of two predatory dinosaurs, Allosaurus (left) and Majungasaurus (right).
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This illustration compares the jaws and teeth of two predatory dinosaurs, Allosaurus (left) and Majungasaurus (right).
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This is an artist's illustration of Najash rionegrina in the dunes of the Kokorkom desert that extended across Northern Patagonia during the Late Cretaceous period. The snake is coiled around with its hindlimbs on top of the remains of a jaw bone from a small charcharodontosaurid dinosaur.
Photos: Ancient finds
This is an artist's illustration of Najash rionegrina in the dunes of the Kokorkom desert that extended across Northern Patagonia during the Late Cretaceous period. The snake is coiled around with its hindlimbs on top of the remains of a jaw bone from a small charcharodontosaurid dinosaur.
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