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1 month ago

T.Rex's ancestors lived on the Isle of Skye 167 million years ago

The footprints at Prince Charles's Point provide a fascinating insight into the behaviours and environmental distributions of meat-eating theropods and plant-eating, long-necked sauropods during an important time in their evolution.
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fromwww.npr.org
6 months ago

The oldest tadpole ever found is 161 million years old and amazingly preserved

This week, a paper published in the journal Nature detailed a tadpole fossil that proves that tadpoles existed at least 161 million years ago, in the mid-late Jurassic period.
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