New alvarezsaur fossil offers a Cretaceous missing link
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Paleontology
The Central American nation never fully recovered from the loss of its megafauna
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The dramatic find sheds new light on the diversity of spinosaurs
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The newly discovered specimen shows how early herbivory evolved
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Forty-year growth periods may have given them a leg up in dominating their ecosystems
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Three recipes our Neanderthal cousins might have enjoyed
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Science-inspired recipes to help you dine like our evolutionary cousins
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A cave in the Dominican Republic has revealed the first recorded instance of bee larvae tucked into fossils
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Close inspection of “exceptionally preserved” fossils suggests that some dinosaurs shed their ability to take off
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Potential flipper marks found by free climbers might point to the marks of frightened reptiles
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