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Turtles today are often slow-moving, modestly sized creatures, but their ancient relatives were quite different. Long before ...

In 1857, Richard Owen discovered 13 fossils that led to a mind-blowing discovery. Discover the largest venomous snake ever.

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Hallucigenia was such an odd animal that palaeontologists reconstructed it upside-down when they first analysed its fossils - ...

This one-ton turtle once ruled South America’s rivers — until a changing planet proved too much for even the largest ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Long before whales dominated the oceans, Earth’s seas were home to a fish so massive it continues to challenge our understanding ...

Long before whales dominated the oceans, Earth’s seas were home to a fish so massive it continues to challenge our understanding of prehistoric life. Leedsichthys problematicus, an enormous ...

Hatzegopteryx was not a typical flying reptile gliding over oceans for fish. It was a massive, heavily built predator that hunted on land, stalking small dinosaurs across open plains. Standing as tall ...

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SpaceX may have launched 10,000 Starlink satellites into orbit, but now it's got big competition. As in literally, physically big. Texas-based AST SpaceMobile has just launched the largest satellite ...