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New Fossils Reveal Toothed Platypus With Strong Bite in Ancient Australian Lakes

The finds fill a rare gap in the platypus fossil record by showing how a toothed ancestor fed and swam.

Lightning Destroys 100-Foot Sauroposeidon Animatronic at Kansas Dinosaur Park

Giant Cretaceous Octopuses May Have Ruled the Seas, Science Study Finds

Seismic Imaging Reveals Ultra-Thin Crust at Turkana Rift Signaling Advanced Breakup Stage

Digital Fossil Mining Reveals Giant Cretaceous Octopuses

AI Scans Reveal Giant Cretaceous Octopus Relatives Nearly 20 Meters Long

Giant Cretaceous Octopuses Identified From 27 Fossil Beaks

Study Finds Crabs’ Sideways Walk Evolved Once Around 200 Million Years Ago

Century-Old Skull Confirms Giant Echidnas Once Lived in Victoria

Maryland Names Extinct Megalodon as Official State Shark

Undergraduate Rebuilds Crushed Skull to Identify New Triassic Carnivorous Dinosaur

Advanced Scans Redraw Muttaburrasaurus With Toothed Snout and Sharper Smell

First Confirmed Egg From a Mammal Ancestor Found in 250-Million-Year-Old Fossil

Famed ‘Oldest Octopus’ Reclassified as Nautiloid After High-Energy X-Ray Study

First Mammal-Ancestor Egg Found Confirms Lystrosaurus Laid Eggs

Mummified Permian Reptile Reveals Oldest Rib-Powered Breathing System

Famed ‘Oldest Octopus’ Fossil Reclassified as a Nautiloid

Late Ediacaran Fossils in China Push Back Origins of Major Animal Groups

Chinese Fossil Trove Pushes Complex Animal Origins Into the Ediacaran

More Than 100 Dinosaur Eggs Unearthed in Southern France Could Be One of Europe's Largest Deposits