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Around 252 million years ago, the world suddenly heated up. Over a geologically brief period of tens of thousands of years, 90% of species were wiped out. Even insects, which are rarely touched by such events, suffered catastrophic losses. The Permian-Triassic mass extinction, as it’s known, was the greatest of…

Researchers find two sites with fossils including saber-toothed salmon and megalodon, the huge prehistoric shark

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Hunter author set to release new illustrated encyclopaedia.

My hands were shaking. It was the first time a person had touched it and the first time it had been seen in 66 million years

Sauropod ‘Qunkasaura pintiquiniestra’ was nearly 50 feet long and weighed more than 10 tons

Ancestor of triceratops likely marched from Asia to North America via prehistoric land bridge, scientists say

A colossal asteroid slammed into Jupiter's largest moon Ganymede with so much power it dramatically and permanently reoriented the moon roughly 4 billion years ago, new research suggests.

A FOSSIL which predates the age of the dinosaurs by 140 million years has been discovered embedded in a paving slab on a city street in Inverness ...

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