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A fossilized find that scientists called a once in a lifetime discovery was almost made into jewelry this week. A Chinese paleontologist found the piece of amber that contained a 99-million-year-old ...

While most paleontologists dig up prehistoric bones from the ground, Lida Xing hunts for fossils in the amber markets of Myanmar. In 2015, he made a remarkable find: Trapped in what looked like golden ...

Science fiction makes it seem like dinosaurs were huge reptiles. But between smaller sizes, feathers, and other factors, they ...

Apatosaurus had a 50-foot-long tail. (National Park Service Illustration / Bob Walters / Tess Kissinger) The dinosaur formerly known as Brontosaurus could certainly do a lot of damage with its long ...

(CNN) — Diplodocids were a family of dinosaurs with long necks and, often, even longer tails — some species' tails reached 50 feet in length. They were wide-ranging, but especially flourished in ...