Between 1-10 August 2022, a team of Portuguese and Spanish paleontologists has been working at the paleontological site in Pombal, Portugal. (Credit: Instituto Dom Luiz, Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon)

Biggest Dinosaur in Europe

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Found in Portugal, the fossilized dino appears to be a sauropod, one of the largest animals to live on land.

Scientists Discover the Biggest Dinosaur in Europe

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Reconstruction of a species of Swaindelphys discovered in Texas’s Big Bend National Park and described by paleontologists from the University of Kansas. (Image Credit:  Kristen Tietjen)

Swaindelphys

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60-Million-Year-Old Fossil Reveals Texas Was Home to Giant Prehistoric Possums

Artistic reconstruction of Bolg amondol, depicted raiding an oviraptorosaur dinosaur nest amidst the lush Kaiparowits Formation habitat. (Image Credit: Art by Cullen Townsend.)

Artistic reconstruction of Bolg amondol, by Cullen Townsend

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Newly Identified Monstersaur Lizard Had an Armored Skull and Walked Among Dinosaurs

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Plateosaurus dinosaurs

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Oldest Dinosaur Bone Infection Discovered in 220-Million-Year-Old Plateosaurus

The extinct proboscidean species Notiomastodon platensis is observed feeding on Chilean palm fruit in La Campana National Park. (Image Credit: Mauricio Álvarez)

mastodon eating fruit

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First mammal Morganucodon. (Image Credit: miha de/Shutterstock)