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Artistic reconstruction of the new dinosaur from Maranhão state. It was 20 meters long and had a European relative. Credit: Jorge Blanco

20-metre dinosaur fossil unearthed at construction site in Brazil

Scientists have identified the animal as Dasosaurus tocantinensis, a roughly 20-metre-long sauropod that is now the largest known dinosaur discovered in Maranhão

The fossil of the 245-million-year-old marine reptile Austronaga minuta, in an undated photograph in Beijing, China released on July 29, 2026.Photo:Reuters.

Chinese fossil shows internal organs of prehistoric marine reptile

Using skeletal imprints and biomechanical models, Amélie Vialet of the National Museum of Natural History in Paris has analysed how ancient humans’ tongues, lungs, and larynx functioned to produce sounds. Photo: UNB

Scientists reconstruct voices of ancient humans from fossils

An employee works at the excavation site where dinosaur bones were found in Davinopolis, Maranhao state, Brazil, April 28, 2021. Photo: Reuters

Dinosaur fossils in Brazil reveal new giant species

This image provided by Sahout Rock Art and Archaeology Project shows a life-size rock carving of a camel, in a desert in northern Saudi Arabia in 2023. Photo: AP/UNB

Scientists discover ancient life-size animal rock art in Saudi Arabia

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Million-year-old skull may rewrite timeline of human evolution

Chinese scientists have discovered new fossils unearthing mysteries about human evolution. Photo: BSS

China discovers landmark human evolution fossils

A fossil footprint in northern Kenya hypothesised to have been created by a Homo erectus individual, is seen in this photograph released on 28 November 2024. Photo: Reuters

Fossil footprints in Kenya show two ancient human species coexisted

Fossils reveal head of ancient millipede that was biggest bug ever

Fossils reveal head of ancient millipede that was biggest bug ever

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Ancient giant tortoise fossils found in Colombian Andes

The two metre long fossil is one of the most complete specimens of its type ever discovered. Photo: BBC

Skull of huge sea monster Pliosaur discovered in UK's Dorset cliffs

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12-million-year-old whale fossil skull found in Maryland

An illustrated reconstruction of the large Cretaceous Period sea turtle Leviathanochelys aenigmatica, which lived about 83 million years ago and whose fossils were found in Catalonia's Alt Urgell county in northeastern Spain, is seen in this undated handout image. ICRA_Arts/Museu de la Conca Della - Institut Catala de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont/Handout via REUTERS

Fossils of car-sized dinosaur-era sea turtle unearthed in Spain