Rare baby dinosaur fossil is full of surprises
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Bronze goods recovered from a river in northern Germany indicate an ancient toolkit of a Bronze Age warrior.
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Mold pigs are a newly discovered family, genus and species of microinvertebrates that lived 30 million years ago.
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Ferrodraco lentoni was a pterosaur, or "flying lizard," that lived among dinosaurs 96 million years ago. The fossil was found in Australia.
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These Late Bronze Age feeding vessels were likely used for infants drinking animal milk.
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This is the first depiction of what mysterious ancient humans called Denisovans, a sister group to Neanderthals, looked like. This image shows a young female Denisovan, reconstructed based on DNA methylation maps. The art was created by Maayan Harel.
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Researchers found a fossil of one of the oldest bird species in New Zealand. While its descendants were giant seafaring birds, this smaller ancestor likely flew over shorter ranges.
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A painting shows the new species of giant salamander called Andri