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The turtle lived alongside dinosaurs like tyrannosaurs

Study describes odd animal that lived 23 million years ago

The species lived about 6 million years ago

The wings were just for show, palaeontologists say

The species populated Canada about 70 million years ago

When found in New Mexico, US, in 1999, the fossilized skull fragment was wrongly assumed to belong to a known species

The discovery of this previously undocumented species sheds new light on the evolution of birds, scientists say

Chilesaurus diegosuarezi roamed the Earth about 145 million years ago during the Late Jurassic, ate nothing but plants

The species populates mountains in eastern Costa Rica, wildlife researchers say it has a distinctive call

The mushrooms, classified as a new species just the other day, have offshoots that look like human arms and legs

The bizarre frogs can change the texture of their skin in just a few minutes, wildlife researchers explain

The amphibian roamed the Earth about 220-230 million years ago, looked more like a crocodile than a salamander

Fossilized remains recovered in the early 1980s belong to the oldest fur seal thus far discovered by palaeontologists

Paleontologists say that, despite their impressive size, the necks of these ancient beasts were relatively lightweight

It often happens for previously undocumented species to be discovered among museum specimens, scientists say

The microbes were discovered not too long ago, researchers say that they populate mammoth undersea aquifers

The reptile, identified as a previously undocumented species, lived in Scotland about 170 million years ago