A newly identified crocodile relative from Egypt pushes back the origins of the marine-hunting dyrosaurids by millions of years. The fossil, Wadisuchus kassabi, shows a mix of primitive and advanced ...

The inundation of water was more than just provision for crops and fields: the Egyptians called the event the coming of Hapy, ...

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An illustration of Late Devonian animals swimming in the water. About 350 million years ago, long before the dinosaurs stalked the planet, a gigantic fish with deadly fangs hunted river waters on the ...

The ancient coelacanth, which has existed for some 419 million years, never stopped evolving despite its reputation as a "living fossil." A new discovery reveals that it evolved faster when plate ...

For thousands of years, humans have used birds as a reliable form of communication, with the earliest known use of pigeons for delivering messages being in ancient Egypt, around 1350 BCE. For as long ...

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