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1. Tully Monster Most Related To the Lamprey 1 2

   By Scylla, March 16, 2016
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   • Auspex
   • March 18, 2016

2. Let's Make "Living Fossils" Term "Extinct" 1 2

   By Oxytropidoceras, July 7, 2016
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   • Ridgehiker
   • July 16, 2016

3. What Traces Will Humans Leave Behind For Future Paleontologists? 1 2

   By Doctor Mud, March 31, 2014
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   • Drizzt0000
   • April 4, 2014

4. New Fossil Horse Specimen From Green River Formation Discovered 1 2

   By sseth, August 3, 2015   

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   • Welsh Wizard
   • August 14, 2015

5. Dino Skull Seized By Homeland Security 1 2

   By Xiphactinus, December 3, 2012
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   • Auspex
   • June 1, 2013

6. How Turtles Got Their Shells 1 2

   By Roz, October 9, 2008
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   • Roz
   • October 16, 2008

7. What's In Your Drawer? 1 2

   By RyanNREMTP, August 3, 2014
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   • jpc
   • August 19, 2014

8. Call for photos for National Geographic 1 2

   By Lowell Carhart, December 31, 2017   

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   • Kasia
   • January 3, 2018

9. Paper Retraction on Burmese Amber Dinosaur 1 2

   By Omnomosaurus, August 7, 2020   

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   • siteseer
   • August 23, 2020

10. Fossil Bird With Cool Teeth 1 2

    By Scylla, January 7, 2013
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    • Scylla
    • January 11, 2013

11. Fossil Hunters Run Amok And The B.c. Government Sits Idle 1 2

    By Guest Nicholas, October 12, 2008
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    • Guest
    • October 15, 2008

12. Denver Fowlers comments on the Sale of Reconstructed Fossils 1 2

    By Troodon, April 24, 2023   

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    • Missourian
    • April 26, 2023

13. Amateur Fossil Collectors are Essential to Paleontology

    By Metafossical, August 23, 2022   

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    • Josesaurus rex
    • September 20, 2022

14. Lucy is Orphan

    By fifbrindacier, June 23, 2022   

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    • Tidgy's Dad
    • July 2, 2022

15. Stan the T. rex put up for auction

    By Praefectus, September 16, 2020   

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    • BellamyBlake
    • September 17, 2020

16. Rare 95 Million-Year-Old Flying Reptile Aetodactylus Halli Is New Pterosaur Genus, Species

    By Smaug, April 28, 2010
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    • Nicholas
    • September 24, 2010

17. Open-Door Day in Stuttgart

    By Ludwigia, October 17, 2015
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    • Ludwigia
    • October 25, 2015

18. Is The Gw A Mako Or Meg?

    By Major, March 14, 2009
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    • tracer
    • November 13, 2009

19. Dinosaur Fossil Poachers Apparently Victimize Cleveland Museum Of Natural History

    By Guest Nicholas, December 1, 2008
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    • va paleo
    • December 3, 2008

20. Fossil Show In Germany

    By Ludwigia, January 9, 2015
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    • michele 1937
    • March 5, 2016

21. US seeks to return auctioned dinosaur skull to Mongolia

    By sdsnl, December 19, 2015
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    • Killclaw
    • December 23, 2015

22. Bigger Than T. Rex

    By DeepTimeIsotopes, January 22, 2015   

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    • BobWill
    • March 5, 2015

23. Fossil Damaged At Dinosaur National Monument

    By Auspex, September 7, 2014
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    • Auspex
    • September 20, 2014

24. One Of My Best Finds

    By Ramo, July 15, 2008
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    • Robii
    • July 21, 2008

25. Alaska's Bone Crushing Wolves

    By Silvershark, June 25, 2007
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    • Silvershark
    • September 2, 2007