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Two perfectly round dinosaur eggs found in China weren't hiding bones, but something far more unexpected. What scientists uncovered inside could rewrite what we know about fossilisation and the final ...

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This 30-million-year-long gap is actually rather helpful to Darwin. It means that there was plenty of time for the ancestor ...

Mummies found so far date back 66 million years, a time when predatory giants were roaming Wyoming's Badlands.