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Devonian Period: Facts, Information, and Timeline
The Devonian Period is the fourth period of the Paleozoic Era. This period started about 419 million years ago and…
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Paleozoic Era: Facts, Information, and Timeline
The Paleozoic Era is one of the most important periods in Earth’s history. It is the longest era of the…
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Meet The 20 Foot ‘Chisel Crocodile’
Crocodiles have been around for a very long time. Even though they have gone through a lot of changes over…
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A 37 Foot Neck? Yes. This Sea Predator Was Crazy Looking
There have been some large creatures on land, but when it comes to the ocean, they simply can’t compete! The…
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Discover the 567-Million-Year-Old Animal That Looked Like a Leaf
567 million years ago, the planet looked considerably different from its current form. The little strip of dry land that…
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Eurypterus
An ancient brackish sea covered most of New York and other regions of North America around 420 million years ago.…
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One Of Earth’s Largest Mammals May Also Have Been One of The Dumbest
About 63 to 52 years ago, during the late Paleocene to middle Eocene Period, a large mammal known as the…
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Pelycosaurs
The pelycosaurs are a group of small, primitive mammal-like reptiles that lived during the Late Paleozoic era. They were the…
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Nuralagus
Nuralagus is a genus of giant rabbits that lived between 3 to 5 million years ago. The Nuralagus rex is…
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Megalochelys
The Megalochelys was a successful genus of giant tortoise that lived in Southeast Asia from the Miocene (about 5 million…
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Ordovician Period: Facts, Information, and Timeline
The Ordovician Period is a 45 million years period during the Paleozoic Era. It is the second period of the…
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Epic Battles: The Largest Shark Ever vs. A Killer Whale Pod
The ocean has historically been the home of some of the most fearsome creatures to have ever lived. Some of…
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Gorgosaurus vs T. Rex: Who Would Win in A Fight?
The Tyrannosaurus rex was a very large and powerful dinosaur. It had an unusual biological toolkit including size and power…
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Muttaburrasaurus
Muttaburrasaurus langdoni was discovered by local grazier Doug Langdon. The dinosaur is named after the town of Muttaburra in Queensland,…
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Macrauchenia
Macrauchenia was a genus of camel-like mammals that belonged to the order Litopterna. This enigmatic ungulate lived on the South…
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Doedicurus
Doedicurus is an extinct genus of heavily-armored armadillos native to South America. The genus has only one species; D. clavicaudatus.…
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Coryphodon
Shortly after the non-avian dinosaurs disappeared at the end of the Cretaceous period, mammals began to gain dominance. The Coryphodon…
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Scientists Discover “Snakey Crocodile-Face” Monster in Wyoming
Serpentisuchops Is a Newly Discovered Dinosaur-Era Reptile That Has One of the Strangest Names Around Toddlers are notoriously good at…
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Permian Period: Facts, Information, and Timeline
The Permian Period was the last period of the Paleozoic Era. It is famous for the worst extinction ever in…
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What Is the Cambrian Explosion, and Why Does It Matter?
Life on earth began around 3.7 billion years ago. The single-celled microscopic organisms of the early earth evolved at a…
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Hoffman’s Dragon Shark: The 300-Million-Year-Old Shark Found in the Desert
Hoffman’s dragon shark (Dracopristis hoffmanorum) is an extinct species of shark that lived during the Carboniferous period about 307 million…
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Ancient “Predator X” Identity Was a Long-Held Mystery
The fossil record is like a box of chocolates — you never know what you are going to get! A…
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Meet The ‘Sea Lord’ With The Longest Neck You’ve Ever Seen
The ocean is home to some of the craziest creatures known to man (and plenty that aren’t). Although humans have…
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Meet the ‘Thick Hyena’ With Stripes, That Grew as Big as a Bear
The modern-day laughing hyena is maybe one of the most famous animals in Africa. These yelping, fearsome creatures have been…
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Opabinia
One of the things studying earth’s ancient fossils has revealed is that the planet had some pretty odd creatures millions…
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Meet the Ancient Crocodile Twice the Size of a Car, and with 100 Razor Teeth
Sarcosuchus (SAR-ko-su-kus) is nicknamed the “super croc” for a good reason. Although the first crocodiles appeared during the Triassic period…
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Pelagornis
Pelagornis, a prehistoric seabird, was bigger than even the largest bird alive today. Living during the Eocene to the Pleistocene,…
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Sauropoda
The giant dinosaurs called Sauropoda were the largest animals that roamed the earth during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. The…
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Discover 5 Incredible Silurian Period Animals
The Silurian Period is one of the six geological periods of the Paleozoic era. It followed the Ordovician Period and…
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Discover the Falcon-Sized Dragon Fly That Ate Lizards
Dragonflies were among the first insects on earth about 300 million years ago. Over the millennia, these insects have developed…
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Giant Beaver
Now extinct, the Giant Beaver was the size of a modern-day bear! Even though they are not closely related to…
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Desmostylus
Desmostylus is an extinct genus of herbivorous mammals that lived from the Late Oligocene to the Miocene. This massive and…
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Toxodon
Description & Size A Toxodon is an extinct genus of South American mammals. It’s a member of Notoungutata, one of…
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Discover 5 Incredible Cambrian Period Animals
The Cambrian explosion happened 500 million years ago. During this epoch, the most important animal groupings first appeared in the…
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7 Animals Bigger Than An African Elephant
: The African elephant is the biggest land animal on earth currently, and on average weighs between 4,000 to 14,000…
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Sarkastodon
The Sarkastadon genus was comprised of massive Creodonts, an order of animals that have since gone extinct. Most Creodonts were…
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Thanatosdrakon
Thanatosdrakon (dragon of death) is a newly identified genus of pterosaur reptiles that lived in South America. The flying reptile…
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Tylosaurus
Tylosaurus is a genus of Mosasaur, a group of large, predatory marine reptiles that lived during the Late Cretaceous (about…
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5 Incredible Animals Taller Than Giraffes
Are any animals taller than giraffes? Research suggests that no living animal exceeds a giraffe in height. The average height…
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Sarcosuchus
Sarcosuchus is an extinct genus of crocodyliform reptiles that lived during the Early Cretaceous Period (about 95 to 115 million…
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7 Prehistoric Primates You Should Know About
Many billions of years ago, the dinosaurs went extinct. This period is when the first primates appeared. Primates then changed…
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Meet The 2.2 Ton ‘Many Thorn’ Dinosaur With Spikes All Over
The era of the dinosaurs was a remarkable one with a lot of fascinating creatures. One of them was the…
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Gigantopithecus: The Giant Extinct Orangutan
Today, in the forests of Borneo and Sumatra, wild orangutans fight for survival against an ever increasing tide of deforestation…
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Euoplocephalus
Euoplocephalus is a genus of giant, heavily armored dinosaurs that lived in North America during the Late Cretaceous period. This…
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Herrerasaurus
Herrerasaurus is a genus of primitive dinosaurs that lived in Northwestern Argentina around the Late Triassic, about 228.7 million to…
3 Monster Reptiles Larger Than a Crocodile!
One of the largest animals on the planet is the enormous crocodile. From the tiny dwarf crocodile to the saltwater…
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Discover The Massive Crocodile That Could Gallop Like A Horse
Although most people are aware that crocodiles and alligators are dangerous, it’s not often we have to really be worried…
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Discover The Gigantic New Zealand ‘Waterbird’ From 60 Million Years Ago
Scientists are still trying to piece together the story of how birds became the most diverse life form on Earth.…
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8 Extinct Australian Animals
Australia is located in the Pacific Ocean. It’s the smallest continent but one of the largest countries and home to…
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Anteosaurus
Anteosaurus is a genus of large mammal-like reptiles that lived during the Permian Period (266-260 million years ago). The Anteosaurus…