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Ten Exceptional Ancient Elephants, From Small Swimming Creatures to Shovel-Tusked Beasts
Not so long ago, the trumpeting of elephants could be heard across a great deal of our planet. Wrinkly-skinned giants did not ...
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Fossil Of A Giant ‘Nightmarish’ Sea Lizard Discovered In A Moroccan Mine
Researchers just discovered a 66-million-year-old sea lizard in a phosphate mine near Casablanca, Morocco. The Khinjaria ...
12 Biggest Creatures to Ever Roam the Earth
Our beloved planet has seen giants that dwarf most animals alive today. These massive creatures lived across different time ...
Meet the lizard, found in India, that can grow up to 9 feet
From the Komodo dragon’s brute strength to the crocodile monitor’s agility, the world’s biggest lizards are as fascinating as ...
‘Supergiant’ deep-sea creature found at fishing port is a new species — and a delicacy
The specimens were the bycatch of a fishing vessel in the South China Sea, which researchers later bought to study.
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Largest fully preserved dinosaur claw unearthed in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert
It is the largest claw of its kind found fully preserved ... the paleontologists also found fossilized parts of the prehistoric creature’s backbone, tail, hips, arms and legs.