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Small Sauropod Dinosaur from Jurassic Period Discovered in India

Paleontologists in India have unearthed a partial skeleton of a diminutive, previously unknown neosauropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic rocks of Gujarat’s Kachchh Basin. Image credit: Connor Ashbridge.

https://www.sci.news/paleontology/ceratocaudia-antiqua-14934.html

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Jurassic sea monster was smaller than once thought, but no less formidable

A new study has found that Liopleurodon reached just over 8 meters long, replacing decades of inflated size estimates with the most accurate reconstruction yet. Image credit: Megan Jacobs/University of Portsmouth

https://phys.org/news/2026-07-jurassic-sea-monster-smaller-thought.html

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Prehistoric fish fossil found in Leeds' Roundhay Park

The fossilised remains of a prehistoric fish have been unearthed at a Leeds beauty spot. Image credit: Hoberman Collection/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9d81x9venwo

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Some dinosaurs could rise like giants until they grew too big

Two elephant-sized South American sauropods were unusually well built for standing on their hind legs. Digital tests showed that their robust femurs handled the enormous forces better than those of larger species. Art: Guilherme Gehr.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/07/260719231758.htm

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"It could sprint at 40mph and had a huge skull with a deadly-looking, hooked beak and swallowed its prey whole…" 10 deadliest prehistoric birds ever

From the giant stork to the elephant bird and Haast's eagle, these are deadliest birds to have ever roamed planet Earth. Image credit: Gabriel Ugueto.

https://www.discoverwildlife.com/prehistoric-life/deadliest-prehistoric-birds

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What's the oldest weapon in the world?

There are a few contenders for the world's oldest weapon, and one is over 400,000 years old. Image credit: Annemieke Milks.

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/whats-the-oldest-weapon-in-the-world

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Why were prehistoric insects so big?

Entomologist Richard Jones explains just why prehistoric insects were so large... Image credit: Mark A. Garlick

https://www.discoverwildlife.com/prehistoric-life/why-prehistoric-insects-so-large

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Scientists just discovered a lost branch of Australia’s marsupials

Fossils from Queensland suggest a newly recognized marsupial order may have survived in Australia for around 35 million years, rewriting part of the story of how the continent's unique mammals evolved. Image credit: Peter Schouten

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/07/260715083546.htm

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A shattered asteroid may have bombarded Earth 800 million years ago

A catastrophic asteroid breakup may have triggered a huge wave of impacts across the inner solar system about 800 million years ago. Image credit: Southwest Research Institute/Don Davis.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/07/260716023559.htm

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Pterosaurs: The Field Guide just showed the printed hardcover for the first time. Five years. Twenty illustrators. Over 200 pterosaur genera. Kickstarter launches August 1. https://fossi.ls/Nev1YT

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Australia's most diverse marsupial predators have been hiding their origins for millions of years

Fossil jaws from Australia have uncovered the earliest known ancestor of modern dasyurid marsupials, filling a major gap in their evolutionary history. Image credit: Neville Garden.

https://phys.org/news/2026-07-australia-diverse-marsupial-predators-millions.html

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Bones from underwater caves may hold new clues to ancient megafauna

Researchers have identified geological "fingerprints" left by underwater caves that could reveal the history of ancient megafauna fossils. Image credit: Steve Trewavas

https://www.discovermagazine.com/bones-from-underwater-caves-may-hold-new-clues-to-ancient-megafauna-49393

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Dinosaurs may have been wiped out by 'oddball' space rock

Nickel isotopes preserved in debris from the Chicxulub impact suggest the asteroid that triggered the dinosaurs' extinction belonged to a rare class of primitive meteorites. Image credit: Donald E. Davis / NASA.

https://www.sci.news/space/chicxulub-c0-chondrite-14927.html

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A raptor in the snow and a helicopter escape

Discovering a new dinosaur species is always exciting, but Mother Nature made sure one of Explorer Diego Pol's latest finds came with some extra challenges. Image credit: Gabriel Díaz Yantén.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/newsletters/article/stones-bones-raptor-in-snow-helicopter-escape

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Reptile fossil found in Brazil helps shed light on the common origins of dinosaurs and crocodiles

A 240-million-year-old animal helps us understand a period before the rise of dinosaurs and crocodiles, when their close relatives were still experimenting with different body shapes, postures, and modes of locomotion. Illustration by Matheus Fernandes.

https://theconversation.com/reptile-fossil-found-in-brazil-helps-shed-light-on-the-common-origins-of-dinosaurs-and-crocodiles-287457

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Ancient DNA analysis reveals Wiltshire’s Upton Lovell Shaman was a woman

Exclusive: Analysis offers ‘smoking gun evidence’ that overturns previous assumption that a Bronze Age shaman was male. Photograph: Wiltshire Museum

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jul/14/ancient-dna-analysis-reveals-upton-lovell-shaman-was-woman-wiltshire

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How the Coelacanth Was Rediscovered After Millions of Years

A fish believed to have died out with the dinosaurs was pulled up alive in a net, a living fossil that had been quietly surviving in the deep ocean for 66 million years while we assumed it was gone.

https://scienceblog.com/t-coelacanth-living-fossil-found-alive/