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New species of extinct marine reptile found with help from 11-year-old child

Paleontologists already know that the extinct marine reptile ichthyosaurs were enormous. Some newly described jawbone fossils uncovered in England represent…

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‘This is an emergency’: Trade group warns nearly a third of all independent pharmacies will go extinct because of a CMS rule

Independent pharmacies have struggled in recent years to stay open—and new financial constraints may mean a record number of pharmacy closures in…

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An extinct sofa-sized turtle may have lived alongside humans

As little as 9,000 years ago, a sofa-sized turtle paddled around the Brazilian Amazon. The finding, based on a fossilized…

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Extinct freshwater dolphin from the Amazon was largest of all time

An artistic reconstruction of Pebanista yacuruna in the murky waters of the Peruvian proto-Amazon Jaime Bran The Amazon basin was…

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50 years ago, evidence showed that an extinct human ancestor walked upright

Fossils show man walked 3 million years ago — Science News, February 16, 1974 Anthropologist D. Carl Johanson … has…

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A sea creature extinct for half a billion years inspired a new soft robot

Plenty of robots are inspired by existing animals, but not as many take their cue from extinct creatures. To design…

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How did humans learn to walk upright? Extinct ape’s inner ear holds clues

Tracing how some primates went from getting around on all fours to walking around on two legs  has been difficult.…

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These extinct, nearly 10-foot-tall apes could not adapt to shifting seasons

Beginning about 2.6 million years ago, giant primates almost 10 feet tall weighing 551 pounds roamed the plains of southern…

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Why huge ape Gigantopithecus went extinct up to 295,000 years ago

Gigantopithcus blacki probably lived in “a mosaic of forests and grasses” Garcia/Joannes-Boyau (Southern Cross University) The largest known primate went…

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Earth’s largest ape went extinct 100,000 years earlier than once thought

The world’s largest ape vanished from Earth more than 100,000 years earlier than once thought, pushed to extinction as the…

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