Paleo Encyclopedia

【Life of the Cretaceous】Psittacosaurus – Light and Dark Shading Preserved in a Fossil Showed It Lived in a Shady Forest

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【Life of the Carboniferous】Cockroaches – Said to Be Unchanged for 300 Million Years, the Carboniferous Ones Were a Different Lineage With a Long Egg-Laying Tube

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【Life of the Triassic】Tanystropheus – The Small Ones Were Not Juveniles but Adults of a Second Species

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【Life of the Permian】Mesosaurus – The Oldest Amniote Embryos Were Inside the Mothers of a Reptile That Went Back to the Water

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【Life of the Jurassic】Belemnites – Ink From a Fossil Ink Sac Was Used to Draw the Animal Itself

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【Life of the Paleogene】Pakicetus – The Four-Legged Animal an Ear Bone Made a Whale

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【Life of the Cretaceous】Tambatitanis – The Friendship of the Two Men Who Found It on a Riverbed Became Its Name

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【Life of the Quaternary】Frilled Shark – A Deep-Sea Shark From Suruga Bay Whose Pregnancy Was Estimated at Three and a Half Years

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【Life of the Quaternary】Elephant Bird – The Closest Relative of a Bird Weighing Hundreds of Kilograms Is the Kiwi

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【Life of the Paleogene】Darwinius – The Fossil Unveiled as a “Missing Link” Turned Out to Sit on the Lemur Side of the Primates

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【Life of the Jurassic】Dilophosaurus – The Venom and Neck Frill Were Fiction; the Real Animal Was a Sturdy 6–7 m Predator

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【Life of the Carboniferous】Lepidodendron – The Bark That Fills the Coal Was Usually Less Than 5 cm Thick on the Living Tree

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【Life of the Quaternary】Tuatara – Is It a “Living Fossil”? Studies of Its Bones and Its Genes Disagree

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【Life of the Triassic】Chirotherium – The “Thumb” in the Hand-Shaped Tracks Was a Fifth Toe Sticking Out to the Side

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【Life of the Neogene】Livyatan – Its First Name, “Leviathan,” Had Already Been Given to a Mastodon in 1841

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【Life of the Cretaceous】Giganotosaurus – “Bigger Than T. rex,” Based on One Skeleton and One Lower Jaw Bone

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【Life of the Permian】Fusulinids – Rice-Grain Shells of Single Cells Revealed That Akiyoshidai Was Upside Down

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【Life of the Devonian】Materpiscis – The Oldest Known Mother, an Armored Fish Carrying an Embryo on an Umbilical Cord

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【Life of the Jurassic】Liopleurodon – The 25-Meter TV Sea Monster Was Just Over 8 Meters Long

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【Life of the Quaternary】Dire Wolf – It Looked Like a Wolf, but Its DNA Split from Wolves 5.7 Million Years Ago

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【Life of the Cretaceous】Nipponites – The Knotted Shell Suspected of Being a Deformity Was a Simple Coiling Rule, Repeated

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【Life of the Cretaceous】Maiasaura – Fifteen Young in a Nest Showed That Dinosaurs Raised Their Babies

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【Life of the Quaternary】Woolly Mammoth – The Last Herd Began With Eight Animals, and Its Genes Did Not Finish It

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【Life of the Permian】Glossopteris – The Tongue-Shaped Leaf Scott’s Party Hauled to the End

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【Life of the Paleogene】Basilosaurus – A Whale Still Named “King Lizard”

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【Life of the Triassic】Plateosaurus – The Dinosaur That Could Not Turn Its Palms Down

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【Life of the Carboniferous】Tully Monster – Seventy Years On, No One Knows if It Was a Vertebrate

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【Life of the Quaternary】Smilodon – Long Sabers, and a Bite a Third as Strong as a Lion’s

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【Life of the Cretaceous】Ammonites – Countless Shells Survive, but the Body Inside Is Still Unknown

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【Life of the Cretaceous】Kamuysaurus – The Tail Taken for a Plesiosaur Was the End of an 8-Meter Dinosaur

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