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2mo ago

Metre-Long Scorpion Praearcturus Gigas Confirmed From Devonian Fossils

Modern imaging and cross-collection comparison show it was an apex, possibly partly aquatic predator that challenges oxygen-based explanations for arthropod gigantism.

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4mo ago

Century-Old Skull Confirms Giant Echidnas Once Lived in Victoria

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6mo ago

Million-Year-Old New Zealand Cave Yields First Early Pleistocene Fauna, New Parrot

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6mo ago

Giant Ice Age Kangaroos Could Hop, Study Finds

7 ARTICLES

last yr.

Landmark Study Chronicles 35-Million-Year Evolution and Extinction of Sloths