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![About 60% of Big John's skeletal remains were discovered. Here, you can see the Triceratops' entire skeleton after the restoration work was complete.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/TodwPEi7HrFwZ5WAGfBSnY-320-80.jpg)
Big John, world's largest Triceratops, got mauled by a rival dinosaur, fossils suggest
By Laura Geggel published
A keyhole-shaped lesion found in the frill of Big John, the largest Triceratops skeleton ever found, may have been made by a rival Triceratops.
![An artist's impression of trilobites on the seafloor](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/t4sypTLqpAvDmvUjfqTJ8L-320-80.jpg)
World's oldest known case of cannibalism revealed in trilobite fossils
By Cameron Duke published
Injured trilobite fossils provide the oldest known evidence of cannibalism.
![an artist's impression of a newly name, snake-like animal called Nagini mazonense. Image shows a blue and yellow, snake-like animal with two, lizard-like back legs crawling over a brown salamander with four limbs](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/EScLWGpqtdKiXCC8EaguN4-320-80.jpg)
Weird ancient snakelike fossil caught in the act of losing its legs
By Nicoletta Lanese published
The fossil belongs to a newfound genus and species.
![A Triceratops that died 67 million years in what is now Montana left behind a spectacular fossil that is now the centerpiece of a new exhibit in Australia.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Fxqy87tW7XcdNnxd8qJzcT-320-80.jpg)
Meet 'Horridus,' one of the most complete Triceratops fossils ever found
By Mindy Weisberger published
A Triceratops skeleton nicknamed "Horridus" is over 85% intact and is one of the most complete Triceratops fossils in the world.
![illustration of a saber-toothed, cat-like predator in a rainforest](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/4Kc6cZpmfc3wgQhRpqB4pc-320-80.jpg)
Mysterious 'hypercarnivore' with blade-like teeth roamed California 42 million years ago
By Nicoletta Lanese published
The hypercarnivore may have hunted tapirs and tiny rhinos.
![An artistic reconstruction of the seiche wave surging into the Tanis river, bringing in fishes and everything in its path — including trees and dinosaurs — while impact spherules rained down from the sky.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/zP2FGnmcSszVnoVKiuMhvL-320-80.jpg)
'Frozen in place' fossils reveal dinosaur-killing asteroid struck in spring
By Mindy Weisberger published
Around 66 million years ago, springtime in the Northern Hemisphere brought disaster and mass death to Earth in the form of a giant asteroid impact that triggered a global extinction.
![An artist's rendering of Utaurora feeding in the Cambrian sea.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/w2EgcyrsvAkpixXCRBHokH-320-80.jpeg)
The 'weirdest wonder' of evolution had an even weirder cousin, new study finds
By Brandon Specktor published
Scientists reexamined the fossil of a strange Cambrian sea creature and found that it is related to the 'weird wonder' Opabinia.
![A top (a), rear (b), bottom (c) and front (d) view of the vertebra discovered at 'Ubeidiya](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Jp46i6XVcnhFPa3HQZqzJW-320-80.jpg)
1.5 million-year-old fossil rewrites 'Out of Africa' theory
By Charles Q. Choi published
A new analysis of a 1.5 million-year-old human vertebra found in Israel suggests that ancient human relatives dispersed out of Africa in multiple waves.
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