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Scientists have described a giant new species of ichthyosaur that evolved its 55-foot-long body size only a few million years after the lizards returned to the seas.

Saw through the boxes in the storage and rediscovered the fossil. and then they arranged very detailed fossil preparation, so they removed the rock covering, the skeleton and finally we see this amazing fossil. this dinosaur belongs to an oviraptorosaur, so oviraptorosaur is a theropod dinosaur group that existed during the cretaceous and they are always described as birdlike because theyre covered with feathers, they dont have any teeth, they have a beak. so, for this particular specimen, we se...

So its being whittled by effect of about $20—30 every month. so, every monday, ive got to cover that gap. ive got to think of getting that amount of money. with most franchises and shops charging either in us dollars or the local currency at the black market rate and in open defiance of the law, the fear is that zimbabweans could one day reject their currency, just as they did in 2009. shingai nyoka, bbc news, harare. now to quite a remarkable discovery. scientists have found a perfectly prese...

It contains one of the most complete dinosaur embryos ever unearthed so what can we learn from it? lets ask steven bersotti, part of the small team of international researchers thats been studying this little baby dinosaur fossil. this is -- were kind of obsessed with it, i have to be honest. this is so cool. its also incredibly informative for you. when you first learned that you would be able to study this, what was your reaction? >> well, im obsessed about it too because this is just the most...

Feathers and wings and wishbones and beaks and all of these things we think of as characteristic features of birds actually evolved tens, hundreds of millions of years ago in t-rex type of dinosaurs. now we can add this one to the list. we now know that some dinosaurs, maybe even many dinosaurs, even developed in their eggs just like birds today. and evening that makes them so relatable. i think when you look at a fossil like this, youre not seeing a movie monster. youre not seeing some colossal...

It seems to be a one in a billion type preservation. what seems to have happened, this egg was probably in a nest. its parents probably would have been protecting those eggs. we know from other fossils that these types of dinosaurs were very caring parents. and it looks like there was a mudslide that just wiped this egg away and it buried this egg within a couple of days before it would have hatched and it very sadly for this sdinosaur, encased the egg in stone. but for us it was preserved as a ...

We might have of a human baby. this is showing a little baby dinosaur just getting ready to emerge into the world. >> i find the images mesmerizing because its in perfect condition. you can see the tiny, fragile bone structure right there. what have you learned from seeing this in such detail? >> the detail is incredible. and when you just think about the odds to have a fossil of a baby dinosaur inside of its egg, this egg is about 6, 7 inches long, its a delicate little thing. to have that pres...

As they did in 2009. shingai nyoka, bbc news, harare. now to quite a remarkable discovery, scientists have found a perfectly preserved dinosaur embryo. it was discovered in southern china and thought to be at least 66 million years old. dr fion waisum ma was part of the research group, she says its "the best dinosaur embryo ever found in history". this fossil was discovered in southern china in around 2000 and then it was hidden in storage for years, so it wasnt until 2015 that the curator of th...

In a rare discovery, paleontologists have found a never-before-seen fossil of a complete baby dinosaur curled up inside an egg in Ganzhou, China.

Paleontologists have found a never-seen-before fossil of a complete baby dinosaur curled up inside its egg. The fossil showed the remarkable similarities between theropod dinosaurs and the birds they would evolve into, according to a new study.