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over 3 years ago by Pete Buchholz

Dinosaur fossils show that they were bruisers

Big, fearsome, and dangerous. Dinosaurs remind many people of fantastic combat scenes that result in grave injuries, or a painful death. In reality, fighting is no more than just a tiny slice of any animal’s life. However, fossils found with evidence of injuries tell a tale of how the extinct animals interacted with one another.
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over 3 years ago by Pete Buchholz

Plant-eating dinosaur had huge chisel-shaped teeth

Rhabdodontids are known from Cretaceous rocks in Europe. They evolved a unique way to break down fibrous plants: scissor-like jaws and teeth. Individual teeth lined up and worked together to form blade-like surfaces capable of slicing tough palm leaves.
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over 3 years ago by Carlos Albuquerque

Prehistoric bat munched on mammals

Known from fossils found in Eocene-aged rocks in Europe and Africa, this ancient bat didn’t eat fruit or insects, like most living bats. Instead its teeth show it focused on larger targets.
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plants and animals
over 3 years ago by Franz Anthony

These whispering, walking bats are onto something

Bats’ echolocation seems like a mysterious, stealthy weapon to us. But to moths, they are a siren of death, loud as a jet engine. As the moths adapt to disrupt the bat’s sonar, the graceful aerial hunter has moved its dining table closer to the ground.
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over 3 years ago by Franz Anthony

Ostracoderms, armored fishes without jaws

It’s hard to imagine a life without a jaw—we need one to eat and interact with one another through speech. Yet like every other part in our body, it didn’t always exist back in life’s evolutionary history.
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