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Sometimes, not adapting is the best adaptation.

Imagine how many nuggets you could make from one of these.

Not all mummies are human.

This was one strange beast... Well, two beasts.

The dinosaur belonged to a family of pterodactyls called tapejarids.

A new paper describing the foot of a lizard preserved in amber broadens our understanding of the fossilization processes. The ...

It's nearly 100 million years old.

How is it possible for something with those eyes to ever go extinct? How? Why?!

If you like cool photos of fossils, we've got just the paper for you!

Shifting ocean chemistry and predatory pressure made organisms bunker up for the first time.

Always go for a meal before you fossilize.

The biggest fish in the pond.

There's only one fossil of this dinosaur that we ever found -- and you're looking at it.

Though they're known as sea lilies, crinoids are animals not plants. Think of them as starfish-on-a-stick: they are filter-feeding sea ...

Kinda looks like the Sarlacc, doesn't it? Well take your geek hat off cause it isn't a sarlacc. Now put ...

When a species almost one hundred times bigger than you, who has access to nukes and can go to space, ...

Helicoprion is an extinct genus of shark-like, cartilaginous fish that lived from the early Permian (~290 m.y. ago) all through ...

Because of insufficient time and man power (if you want to help, just look at the banner in the right), ...