Paleontology
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Southernmost Purgatorius Fossils Unearthed in Colorado, Extending the Range of Earth's Earliest Known Primate Relative by 800 Kilometers
Paleontologists have recovered tiny fossilized teeth of Purgatorius from Colorado's Denver Basin, marking the southernmost occurrence ever documented and suggesting that archaic primates dispersed rapidly across western North America within hundreds of thousands of years of the dinosaur extinction.
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Two Back-to-Back Nature Papers Reveal the Oldest Known Bony Fish and the Silurian's Apex Predator, Pushing Vertebrate Origins Back 10 Million Years
Paleontologists report paired discoveries from China that rewrite the early chapter of bony fish evolution and, by extension, the evolutionary lineage leading to all living vertebrates including humans.
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Scientists Discover First New Spinosaurus Species in a Century — a 'Hell Heron' from the Inland Sahara
A team led by the University of Chicago has named Spinosaurus mirabilis, a scimitar-crested, fish-eating theropod found 500–1,000 km from the nearest ancient sea, reshaping what scientists know about where spinosaurs lived.
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