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1. Reexcavating Dark Data From Museum Fossil Collections

   By Oxytropidoceras, September 26, 2018   

   • dark data
   • digital paleontology
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   • Walt
   • September 26, 2018

2. Refining Carbon Dating Using Lacustrine Varves

   By Oxytropidoceras, October 19, 2012   

   • calibration
   • Radiocarbon
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   • Oxytropidoceras
   • October 19, 2012

3. Reign Of The Terror Birds

   By Lion'sDen, July 27, 2015
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   • PaleoWilliam
   • July 27, 2015

4. Relict (Autochthonous) Microbial Community Reported From Cretaceous Oozes, South Pacific Gyre

   By Oxytropidoceras, July 28, 2020   

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   • Oxytropidoceras
   • July 28, 2020

5. Relict duck-billed dinosaurs survived into the last age of the dinosaurs in subantarctic Chile.

   By Oxytropidoceras, July 2, 2023   

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     • magallanes
     • patagonia
     • río de las chinas valley
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   • Oxytropidoceras
   • July 2, 2023

6. Remains Of Captive Carnivores Discovered At Mexican Pyramid

   By edd, December 20, 2015
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   • edd
   • December 20, 2015

7. Remains of Miocene elephant from Macedonia

   By Kasia, April 24, 2018   

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   • Kasia
   • April 24, 2018

8. Remains of one of the biggest Devonian predators from Poland

   By Kasia, January 23, 2018   

   • devonian placoderm
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   • Tidgy's Dad
   • January 23, 2018

9. Remains of Triassic-Jurassic Lepidoptera Found

   By Oxytropidoceras, January 10, 2018   

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   • Tidgy's Dad
   • January 11, 2018

10. Remarkably Preserved Fossil Frog, France (Thaumastosaurus)

    By Oxytropidoceras, October 26, 2013
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    • Raistlin
    • October 27, 2013

11. Remember Ida?

    By emmytee, October 4, 2010
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    • Auspex
    • October 5, 2010

12. Reopening Of The Paleontological Collection In Tuebingen

    By Ludwigia, November 10, 2011
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    • Ludwigia
    • November 30, 2011

13. Reptile Fossil Reignites Debate Over New Zealand Submergence

    By Guest Nicholas, January 30, 2009
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    • mommabetts
    • January 30, 2009

14. Reptile scales share evolutionary origin with hair, feathers

    By edd, June 25, 2016
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    • doushantuo
    • June 25, 2016

15. Reptile Trace Fossils Stolen from Capitol Reef National Park

    By Crusty_Crab, May 11, 2022   

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    • Crusty_Crab
    • May 11, 2022

16. Research Rebuts Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis

    By Oxytropidoceras, February 9, 2013
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    • Oxytropidoceras
    • February 9, 2013

17. Research Works Act

    By squalicorax, February 29, 2012
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    • Scylla
    • February 29, 2012

18. Researcher discovers ancestor of biggest bird ever

    By edd, February 23, 2016
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    • squali
    • February 25, 2016

19. Researchers Find Earliest Example Of Reproduction In A Complex Organism

    By edd, August 29, 2015
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    • edd
    • August 29, 2015

20. Researchers Find Fossil Fragments Of World’S Oldest Flowering Plant

    By edd, August 29, 2015
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    • edd
    • August 29, 2015

21. Researchers Find Fossils Of New Type Of European Camel

    By Nicholas, July 1, 2009
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    • mommabetts
    • July 1, 2009

22. Researchers Have Found The First Ever Fossilized Dinosaur Brain

    By tmaier, October 27, 2016   

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    • JohnJ
    • October 29, 2016

23. Researchers Have Uncovered Perfectly Preserved Fossilized Brains That Are Half-A-Billion Years Old

    By edd, November 10, 2015
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    • Mike Pocock
    • November 11, 2015

24. Researchers Sequence Complete Genomes of Extinct and Living Elephants

    By Oxytropidoceras, February 27, 2018   

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    • Oxytropidoceras
    • February 27, 2018

25. Researchers Sequenced 430,000-Year-Old Dna From Neanderthal Relative

    By edd, September 13, 2015
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    • ZiggieCie
    • September 13, 2015