Fossil
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Travel
Earth’s Largest Rodents Were Smaller Than We Once Thought
Modern rodents range in size from pygmy mice weighing less than an ounce to stocky capybaras pushing 175 pounds. But…
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One of Evolution’s Oddest Creatures Finds a Fossilized Family Member
Of all the strange creatures unearthed from the Burgess Shale — a cache of remarkable Cambrian fossils deposited in the…
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Richard Leakey, Kenyan Fossil Hunter and Conservationist, Dies at 77
Richard Leakey, the Kenyan paleoanthropologist and fossil hunter whose discoveries of ancient human skulls and skeletons helped cement Africa’s ...
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