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Museum fossils reveal a barrel-shaped, 160-million-year-old squid relative that is upending centuries of scientific understanding.
A 168-million-year-old platypus-like mammal relative discovered in China is reshaping scientific understanding of early mammalian evolution.
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Scientists have utilized 165-million-year-old fossils to simulate the auditory environment of a Jurassic rainforest, recreating ancient insect chirps.
Biologists have utilized AI, lasers, and fossilized wings to recreate the insect calls of forests from 165 million years ago.
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The discovery of the world's smallest known long-tailed bird in China provides a critical link in the evolutionary transition from dinosaurs to birds.
A 120-million-year-old fossil mystery solved: the predator that butchered ancient birds was a gliding, feathered dinosaur cousin of Velociraptor.