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The extinct shark megalodon is often imagined as a beefy, supersize great white, with a gaping maw of pointy teeth capping off a powerful body that spanned 50 feet from nose to tail. Now, a team of ...
Body size estimates of some of Earth’s larger-than-life species may have been just that: a little bit too large for real life. That’s just one example. Size estimates of many of the planet’s extinct ...
Giant ancient animals known as megafauna, originally thought to have gone extinct due to the arrival of human beings, have now been found to have perished for other reasons. In a paper published in ...
The newly discovered species, Prosaurosphargis yingzishanensis, grew to around 5 feet long and was covered in bony scales called osteoderms. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...
MELBOURNE, Australia -- Almost 100 years after its extinction, the Tasmanian tiger may live once again. Scientists want to resurrect the striped carnivorous marsupial, officially known as a thylacine, ...
A "de-extinction" company says it has revived the long-eradicated dire wolf species using a new gene-editing technology. The US start-up, Colossal Biosciences, said it had used "end-to-end ...
Most of us saw Jurassic Park and its many sequels as a cautionary tale. Some scientists, however, apparently saw it as a game plan. While no one has brought dinosaurs back (yet), Texas-based genetic ...
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