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Stegouros elengassen, unearthed in Chile, had a strange flattened tail that looked like a fern frond – a feature never seen before in an ankylosaur dinosaur

"Books on prehistoric animals for kids need to update and put this weird tail in there....It just looks crazy," Chilean paleontologist Alex Vargas said.

While ankylosaurs are already known for their armor and club tails, this specimen from South America had a unique way of fighting predators.

Fossils found in Chile are from a strange-looking dog-sized dinosaur species that had a unique slashing tail weapon, scientists reported Wednesday.

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Off the coast of California, a research team stumbled across a very old mammoth tusk 10,000 feet below the oceans surface.

The heavy metal guitarist meets paleontologist Mats Eriksson via a video call when shown a photo of Drepanoistodus Iommii at a ceremony in his native Birmingham, England.

The first fossil evidence of a pine cone sprouting seeds has been preserved in 40 million-year-old amber.