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University of Alberta researchers find evidence raptor may have fed on apex predator
University of Alberta researchers find evidence of a raptor feeding on an apex predator.
Paleontology
81 independently detected trends connected to this subject, with the latest coverage first.
What Archynetys tracks about Paleontology
This hub groups 81 separate news trends connected to Paleontology, spanning June 19, 2026 through October 10, 2026. Each event page combines source coverage, attention velocity and a time-stamped explanation instead of treating every headline as a separate story.
The record below represents 579 article observations and 559 source signals, led by Science, World, Entertainment coverage. Use it to compare how individual events emerged, spread and changed over time.
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This surprising mammal fossil is giving scientists something to chew on
Surprising mammal fossil sparks debate on evolution of suckling.
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Scientists identify a crocodile they never knew existed
A prehistoric crocodile, unknown to science, was uncovered inside the limestone of Egypt’s Great Sphinx, surprising archaeologists and paleontologists alike.
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Rare insect discovery reveals a new species from the dinosaur age
Rare insect discovery reveals a new species from the dinosaur age.
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Re-evaluating molecular clock maximum age calibrations revives pre-Ediacaran divergence estimates for animals
Molecular clocks now push animal origins 200 million years earlier than fossil records suggest
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New Feathered Dinosaur Suggests Flight Evolved More Than Once among Birds’ Closest Relatives
A pristine feathered dinosaur fossil from China may force scientists to rethink how flight first evolved.
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Evolution of terrestrial anatomy revealed by a derived stem tetrapod
6 news sources are covering this Science story right now — Archynetys is tracking how fast it spreads.
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Newly Identified Frog-like Creature Named by Student Scientists After Their Moms
Student researchers overturn a 300‑million‑year‑old fossil's identity, naming a new frog‑like species after their mothers.
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Fossilized Vomit Reveals How Plesiosaurs Dined on Jurassic Seafloor
6 news sources are covering this Science story right now — Archynetys is tracking how fast it spreads.
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A high school teacher stumbled across two giant footprints
A teacher’s accidental find of two giant prints has turned into the first likely T. rex trackway, reshaping dinosaur locomotion studies.
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New Therizinosaurian Dinosaur Unearthed in China
5 news sources are covering this Science story right now — Archynetys is tracking how fast it spreads.
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Dentists Will Have a Field Day With This Tooth
5 news sources are covering this Science story right now — Archynetys is tracking how fast it spreads.
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Fossil tooth analysis confirms Tyrannosaurus rex was warm-blooded
New tooth analysis suggests T. rex ran on a human‑like temperature, challenging the cold‑blooded image that has shaped public imagination.
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New species of 240-million-year-old prehistoric animal could reshape dinosaur origins timeline
8 news sources are covering this Science story right now — Archynetys is tracking how fast it spreads.
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Diplodocus, Long Thought Exclusively American, Turns Up in Spain
A Diplodocus, previously thought to be exclusive to North America, has been discovered in Spain.
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Well-preserved tooth from Pacific mastodon found in a creek in San Francisco Bay Area
7 news sources are covering this Science story right now — Archynetys is tracking how fast it spreads.
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Scientists Find First Adult T. Rex Trackway – And The Footprints Are Human-Sized
Scientists discover human-sized footprints of an adult Tyrannosaurus Rex in North Dakota.
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Gondwana really was a supercontinent—and it may have helped kickstart life on Earth
New geological maps show Gondwana spanned far more of ancient Earth than thought, reshaping theories of the Cambrian boom.
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One giant step: first known T rex footprints found in North Dakota
First known T rex footprints found in North Dakota
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Dinosaur fossil found deep underground in drill core in northern China
115-million-year-old fossil found in China drill core
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Massive Ice Age-era mastodon tooth found in California creek
A 10,000‑year‑old mastodon molar unearthed in a San Mateo creek ignites fresh Ice Age discussion.
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Paleontologists Discover First-Ever Adult Tyrannosaurus rex Trackway
A 66‑million‑year‑old adult T. rex left its sole imprint in North Dakota, reshaping our view of the giant predator’s stride.
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'Oddly shaped rock' found in San Mateo County turns out to be huge ice age tooth
Rare ice age discovery sparks excitement among fossil enthusiasts
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A 66.5-million-year-old trackway captures adult T. rex at walking pace
A 66.5‑million‑year‑old adult T. rex trackway, showing a four‑meter walking stride, rewrites dinosaur locomotion lore.
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Fossilized eggs of the largest known dinosaurs have been unearthed in an unexpected place
Fossilized eggs of the largest known dinosaurs have been unearthed in a surprising location.
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Giant new dinosaur discovered beneath construction site in Brazil
A 20‑metre dinosaur named Dasosaurus tocantinensis has emerged from under a Brazilian rail site, sparking global scientific focus.
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A fossil pincer more than 159 millimetres long has been identified as a scorpion's, after a century in which the animal was most often filed among the crustaceans, and the scorpion reading was still being rejected in 2024
A 159‑mm Devonian pincer, long mis‑filed as a crustacean, is now re‑identified as a giant scorpion limb, sparking taxonomic debate.
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Study Reveals New Details About Death Of Largest T Rex Ever Discovered
Scientists found a 66-million-year-old wound still healing inside a T. rex’s rib, revealing new details about the death of the largest T. rex ever discovered.
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The 'American Cheetah' Wasn't a Cheetah. New DNA Evidence Shows Just How Wrong Scientists Had It
New DNA evidence has forced a reclassification of the 'American Cheetah'
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Not tiger, not wolf: Australian thylacine skull reveals a far different hunting style
New research shows the extinct Tasmanian tiger hunted like an opportunist with crocodile-style snapping jaws.
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Bizarre Fossil Turns Out to Be a 24-Legged Insect Science Somehow Missed
A 324-million-year-old fossil reveals insects once had 24 legs, challenging what we know about their evolution.
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Reconstructed Jurassic insect calls evoke a 165-million-year-old forest soundscape
Scientists have reconstructed the sounds of a Jurassic forest, bringing the 165-million-year-old ecosystem to life through insect calls.
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Ancient shark graveyard discovered in Egypt reveals 5 extinct species from dinosaur era
A graveyard of ancient sharks has been found in the Egyptian desert, where a sea once teemed with now-extinct species.
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Scientists Reconstruct Sound of Jurassic Insects
6 news sources are covering this Science story right now — Archynetys is tracking how fast it spreads.
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An Ancient Shark Graveyard Has Been Found in The Egyptian Desert
Researchers unearth a 70-million-year-old shark graveyard in Egypt's desert, revealing a rich Cretaceous marine ecosystem.
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I’m a Paleontology Nerd. Anne Hathaway’s New Movie Gives Us Some Real Dinosaur Boners—Sometimes Literally.
Anne Hathaway’s new movie is a hit with paleontology nerds, but not for the reasons you might expect.
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Layered rock in India shows potential signs of microbial life dating to 3.5 billion years ago
A 3.5-billion-year-old rock in India may hold the oldest direct evidence of microbial life on Earth.
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Giant crocodylians dominated the food chain in Miocene South America, fossil evidence suggests
Fossil evidence from Miocene-era South America suggests giant crocodylians served as the apex predators of their ecosystems.
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Where Were All the Tiny Dinosaurs? Scientists May Finally Have an Answer
Scientists propose a new theory for why tiny dinosaurs never evolved
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New evidence helps solve how earliest birds took flight
New paleontological evidence suggests early birds utilized ground-based hopping mechanics similar to modern crows to initiate flight.
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Fossils show huge carbon emissions harm forests, not ‘green the planet’
Fossils from 56 million years ago show that high carbon emissions can devastate forests, not 'green the planet'
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This 236-Million-Year-Old Fossil Just Rewrote the Story of Live Birth
A 236-million-year-old fossil discovery suggests the origins of live birth in mammal ancestors occurred significantly earlier than previous models indicated.
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The First Ever Leg Bones Of The Mysterious Denisovans Have Been Identified From Fossils Dredged From The Seafloor
Researchers have identified the first known Denisovan leg bones recovered from the seafloor, prompting debate over the physical stature of the archaic humans.
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Everest’s summit has an ocean secret. The internet is debating what it means.
The discovery of ancient sea fossils on Mount Everest's summit is sparking debate about the mountain's past and biblical interpretations.
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The asteroid that ended the dinosaur age struck Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula about 66 million years ago, and the sulphur-rich rocks beneath it helped turn a roughly 10-kilometre object into a global climate disaster
The asteroid that ended the dinosaur age may have had a second, more deadly impact on life on Earth.
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Intricate Carvings in Ostrich Eggshells are 60,000 Years Old
Engravings found on ostrich eggshells dating back 60,000 years are shifting current perspectives on the sophistication of early human cognition.
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Early snakes explored life underground, on land and at sea
An 80-million-year-old fossil is rewriting the story of how snakes evolved.
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Only two complete dodo skulls are known to exist. Scientists just looked inside them
Scientists have studied the only two complete dodo skulls in existence, revealing new insights about the extinct bird
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In Brazil, an 80-million-year-old fossil may reveal how snakes first traded walking for slithering
An 80-million-year-old fossil found in Brazil may rewrite the evolutionary story of snakes.
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New dinosaur species identified in New Mexico, researchers say
A newly identified dinosaur species from New Mexico is making waves in the paleontology community.
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Were there tiny dinosaurs? New study explores one of evolution's biggest mysteries
A new scientific study is challenging long-held assumptions about dinosaur evolution by examining why species never shrunk to miniature sizes.
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An Ichthyosaur’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day 160 million years ago
A newly discovered fossil reveals a brutal chain of Cretaceous violence that could rewrite our understanding of prehistoric marine ecosystems
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An Ancient Poop Explosion Could Have Helped Complex Life Evolve
New research suggests that a massive, ancient increase in animal waste may have triggered the rapid diversification of life on Earth 540 million years ago.
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Female mammoths were cavemen’s preferred prey
New research reveals that Ice Age humans strategically hunted female mammoths.
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Ancient DNA Reveals Woolly Mammoth With A Sex Chromosome Combination Never Before Seen In An Extinct Species
A study of ancient DNA has revealed that Ice Age humans targeted female woolly mammoths, challenging assumptions about prehistoric hunting practices.
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Saber-toothed cats' spinal tumors suggest inbred species struggled to survive
4 news sources are covering this Science story right now — Archynetys is tracking how fast it spreads.
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Fossil footprints reveal body size and group dynamics of 1.4-million-year-old human relative
New 1.4‑million‑year‑old footprints in Kenya force a rethink of early human size and social structure
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Scientists trace the shocking origin of human eyes to an ancient “cyclops”
5 news sources are covering this Science story right now — Archynetys is tracking how fast it spreads.
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Dinosaur-era fossil provides insight into snake evolution
A fossilized snake from the Cretaceous period is rewriting our understanding of reptile evolution.
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Exceptional brain and ecological diversity in the earliest snakes
6 news sources are covering this Science story right now — Archynetys is tracking how fast it spreads.