At first, they looked like muddy chunks of ancient shell. But these 20-million-year-old fossil oysters had been slowly replaced with agate over time, creating hidden patterns inside the stone. When ...

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Rare 160-million-year-old sea spider fossils from Southern France look nearly identical to living species, revealing a body ...

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Did our AI summary help? Imagine a scorpion longer than a cricket bat crawling across ancient Britain. A new study confirms that the largest scorpion ever discovered lived around 415 million years ago ...