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Mammoth bones found on river bank in Ukraine
ZAPORIZHZHIA, UKRAINE - AUGUST 12, 2024 - Three mammoth bones found on the bank of the River Dnipro after the water level had dropped are displayed at the Museum of the History of Zaporizhzhian Cossacks on Khortytsia Island, Zaporizhzhia, southeastern Ukraine. (Ukrinform/POLARIS) (FOTO:DUKAS/POLARIS)
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Mammoth bones found on river bank in Ukraine
ZAPORIZHZHIA, UKRAINE - AUGUST 12, 2024 - Journalists cover the demonstration of three mammoth bones found on the bank of the River Dnipro after the water level had dropped at the Museum of the History of Zaporizhzhian Cossacks on Khortytsia Island, Zaporizhzhia, southeastern Ukraine. (Ukrinform/POLARIS) (FOTO:DUKAS/POLARIS)
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Mammoth bones found on river bank in Ukraine
ZAPORIZHZHIA, UKRAINE - AUGUST 12, 2024 - One of the three mammoth bones found on the bank of the River Dnipro after the water level had dropped is displayed at the Museum of the History of Zaporizhzhian Cossacks on Khortytsia Island, Zaporizhzhia, southeastern Ukraine. (Ukrinform/POLARIS) (FOTO:DUKAS/POLARIS)
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Mammoth bones found on river bank in Ukraine
ZAPORIZHZHIA, UKRAINE - AUGUST 12, 2024 - Khortytsia National Reserve employee Mykhailo Mulenko measures the length of one of the three mammoth bones found on the bank of the River Dnipro after the water level had dropped during the demonstration at the Museum of the History of Zaporizhzhian Cossacks on Khortytsia Island, Zaporizhzhia, southeastern Ukraine. (Ukrinform/POLARIS) (FOTO:DUKAS/POLARIS)
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Mammoth bones found on river bank in Ukraine
ZAPORIZHZHIA, UKRAINE - AUGUST 12, 2024 - One of the three mammoth bones found on the bank of the River Dnipro after the water level had dropped is displayed at the Museum of the History of Zaporizhzhian Cossacks on Khortytsia Island, Zaporizhzhia, southeastern Ukraine. (Ukrinform/POLARIS) (FOTO:DUKAS/POLARIS)
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Mammoth bones found on river bank in Ukraine
ZAPORIZHZHIA, UKRAINE - AUGUST 12, 2024 - Khortytsia National Reserve employee Mykhailo Mulenko holds one of the three mammoth bones found on the bank of the River Dnipro after the water level had dropped during the demonstration at the Museum of the History of Zaporizhzhian Cossacks on Khortytsia Island, Zaporizhzhia, southeastern Ukraine. (Ukrinform/POLARIS) (FOTO:DUKAS/POLARIS)
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Mammoth bones found on river bank in Ukraine
ZAPORIZHZHIA, UKRAINE - AUGUST 12, 2024 - Three mammoth bones found on the bank of the River Dnipro after the water level had dropped are displayed at the Museum of the History of Zaporizhzhian Cossacks on Khortytsia Island, Zaporizhzhia, southeastern Ukraine. (Ukrinform/POLARIS) (FOTO:DUKAS/POLARIS)
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Mammoth bones found on river bank in Ukraine
ZAPORIZHZHIA, UKRAINE - AUGUST 12, 2024 - Khortytsia National Reserve employee Mykhailo Mulenko holds one of the three mammoth bones found on the bank of the River Dnipro after the water level had dropped during the demonstration at the Museum of the History of Zaporizhzhian Cossacks on Khortytsia Island, Zaporizhzhia, southeastern Ukraine. (Ukrinform/POLARIS) (FOTO:DUKAS/POLARIS)
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Mammoth bones found on river bank in Ukraine
ZAPORIZHZHIA, UKRAINE - AUGUST 12, 2024 - Journalists cover the demonstration of three mammoth bones found on the bank of the River Dnipro after the water level had dropped at the Museum of the History of Zaporizhzhian Cossacks on Khortytsia Island, Zaporizhzhia, southeastern Ukraine. (Ukrinform/POLARIS) (FOTO:DUKAS/POLARIS)
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Mammoth bones found on river bank in Ukraine
ZAPORIZHZHIA, UKRAINE - AUGUST 12, 2024 - Khortytsia National Reserve employee Mykhailo Mulenko holds one of the three mammoth bones found on the bank of the River Dnipro after the water level had dropped during the demonstration at the Museum of the History of Zaporizhzhian Cossacks on Khortytsia Island, Zaporizhzhia, southeastern Ukraine. (Ukrinform/POLARIS) (FOTO:DUKAS/POLARIS)
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Mammoth bones found on river bank in Ukraine
ZAPORIZHZHIA, UKRAINE - AUGUST 12, 2024 - Khortytsia National Reserve employee Mykhailo Mulenko measures the length of one of the three mammoth bones found on the bank of the River Dnipro after the water level had dropped during the demonstration at the Museum of the History of Zaporizhzhian Cossacks on Khortytsia Island, Zaporizhzhia, southeastern Ukraine. (Ukrinform/POLARIS) (FOTO:DUKAS/POLARIS)
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Mammoth bones found on river bank in Ukraine
ZAPORIZHZHIA, UKRAINE - AUGUST 12, 2024 - One of the three mammoth bones found on the bank of the River Dnipro after the water level had dropped is displayed at the Museum of the History of Zaporizhzhian Cossacks on Khortytsia Island, Zaporizhzhia, southeastern Ukraine. (Ukrinform/POLARIS) (FOTO:DUKAS/POLARIS)
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Mammoth bones found on river bank in Ukraine
ZAPORIZHZHIA, UKRAINE - AUGUST 12, 2024 - Khortytsia National Reserve employee Mykhailo Mulenko holds a mammoth scapula found on the bank of the River Dnipro after the water level had dropped during the demonstration at the Museum of the History of Zaporizhzhian Cossacks on Khortytsia Island, Zaporizhzhia, southeastern Ukraine. (Ukrinform/POLARIS) (FOTO:DUKAS/POLARIS)
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Mammoth bones found on river bank in Ukraine
ZAPORIZHZHIA, UKRAINE - AUGUST 12, 2024 - Kostiantyn Nelipa, who found three mammoth bones while fishing on the bank of the River Dnipro which emerged after the water had receded, holds one of his finds during the demonstration at the Museum of the History of Zaporizhzhian Cossacks on Khortytsia Island, Zaporizhzhia, southeastern Ukraine. (Ukrinform/POLARIS) (FOTO:DUKAS/POLARIS)
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Mammoth bones found on river bank in Ukraine
ZAPORIZHZHIA, UKRAINE - AUGUST 12, 2024 - Khortytsia National Reserve employee Mykhailo Mulenko holds one of the three mammoth bones found on the bank of the River Dnipro after the water level had dropped during the demonstration at the Museum of the History of Zaporizhzhian Cossacks on Khortytsia Island, Zaporizhzhia, southeastern Ukraine. (Ukrinform/POLARIS) (FOTO:DUKAS/POLARIS)
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Mammoth bones found on river bank in Ukraine
ZAPORIZHZHIA, UKRAINE - AUGUST 12, 2024 - Khortytsia National Reserve employee Mykhailo Mulenko stands by three mammoth bones found on the bank of the River Dnipro which emerged after the water level had dropped during the demonstration at the Museum of the History of Zaporizhzhian Cossacks on Khortytsia Island, Zaporizhzhia, southeastern Ukraine. (Ukrinform/POLARIS) (FOTO:DUKAS/POLARIS)
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Fossils of primitive cousins of iconic meat-eating dinosaur Tyrannosaurus rex have been discovered by scientists in North Africa.
The bones belong to two new dinosaur species from a species called Abelisauridae.
These animals that had short, bulldog snouts and even shorter arms.
These carnivorous dinosaurs were counterparts to the tyrannosaurs of the Northern Hemisphere.
They lived during the latter part of the Cretaceous period which ended with a giant asteroid impact 66 million years ago that wiped out much life on Earth.
Two new species of dinosaur were found in Morocco, just outside of Casablanca.
One species, found near the town of Sidi Daoui, is represented by a foot bone from a predator about two and a half metres long.
The other, from nearby Sidi Chennane, is the shin bone of a carnivore that grew to around five metres in length.
The finds show that Morocco was home to diverse dinosaur species just before the asteroid extinction known as the Cretaceous-Paleogene crisis.
OPS: Fossil abelisaur metatarsal bones found in the feet
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Dinosaur 1
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Fossils of primitive cousins of iconic meat-eating dinosaur Tyrannosaurus rex have been discovered by scientists in North Africa.
The bones belong to two new dinosaur species from a species called Abelisauridae.
These animals that had short, bulldog snouts and even shorter arms.
These carnivorous dinosaurs were counterparts to the tyrannosaurs of the Northern Hemisphere.
They lived during the latter part of the Cretaceous period which ended with a giant asteroid impact 66 million years ago that wiped out much life on Earth.
Two new species of dinosaur were found in Morocco, just outside of Casablanca.
One species, found near the town of Sidi Daoui, is represented by a foot bone from a predator about two and a half metres long.
The other, from nearby Sidi Chennane, is the shin bone of a carnivore that grew to around five metres in length.
The finds show that Morocco was home to diverse dinosaur species just before the asteroid extinction known as the Cretaceous-Paleogene crisis.
OPS: Fossil abelisaur tibia , the shin bone
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Dinosaur 1
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Pictures must credit: Andrey Atuchin / University of Bath
Fossils of primitive cousins of iconic meat-eating dinosaur Tyrannosaurus rex have been discovered by scientists in North Africa.
The bones belong to two new dinosaur species from a species called Abelisauridae.
These animals that had short, bulldog snouts and even shorter arms.
These carnivorous dinosaurs were counterparts to the tyrannosaurs of the Northern Hemisphere.
They lived during the latter part of the Cretaceous period which ended with a giant asteroid impact 66 million years ago that wiped out much life on Earth.
Two new species of dinosaur were found in Morocco, just outside of Casablanca.
One species, found near the town of Sidi Daoui, is represented by a foot bone from a predator about two and a half metres long.
The other, from nearby Sidi Chennane, is the shin bone of a carnivore that grew to around five metres in length.
The finds show that Morocco was home to diverse dinosaur species just before the asteroid extinction known as the Cretaceous-Paleogene crisis.
OPS: Artist's impression of the two new Abelisauridae species. The larger , five metre long animal (on the left) confronts a family of the smaller 2.5 metre dinos on tyhe right over the washed up carcass of a marine mammal.
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Feather molting clue to why ancestors of modern birds survived mass dinosaur era extinction.
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Palaeontologists probing why the dinosaur ancestors of modern birds lived while so many other species died think it could be down to the molting of feathers.
Birds are the only group of dinosaurs that survived the asteroid-induced mass extinction 66 million years ago.
But not all the birds alive at the time made it and experts have been trying to solve this for decades.
A new study suggests it could be down to the differences between how modern birds and their ancient cousins molt.
OPS: Illustration showing a young Enantiornithine bird.It was feathers from a chich of this species found in amber.
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Feather molting clue to why ancestors of modern birds survived mass dinosaur era extinction.
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Palaeontologists probing why the dinosaur ancestors of modern birds lived while so many other species died think it could be down to the molting of feathers.
Birds are the only group of dinosaurs that survived the asteroid-induced mass extinction 66 million years ago.
But not all the birds alive at the time made it and experts have been trying to solve this for decades.
A new study suggests it could be down to the differences between how modern birds and their ancient cousins molt.
OPS: Feathers from a baby bird that lived 99 million years ago, preserved in amber, used in the study.
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Remains of new flying reptile species spotted in UK museum drawer. Student finds mislabelled fragment of pterosaur, which flew over eastern England up to 66m years ago.
Phd student Roy Smith 26, pictured at his home in Portsmouth with a tiny fragment of fossilised bone which he believes is a new sort of dinosaur.
The flying lizard kind of animal must have once flown over the Fens in Cambridgeshire, UK.
Palaeontologists have made a surprising discovery while searching through 100-year-old fossil collections from the UK a new mystery species of pterosaur, unlike anything seen before.
Lead author of the project, University of Portsmouth PhD student Roy Smith, discovered the mystery creature amongst fossil collections housed in the Sedgwick Museum of Cambridge and the Booth Museum at Brighton that were assembled when phosphate mining was at its peak in the English Fens between 1851 and 1900. These fossils found while workmen were digging phosphate nodules were frequently sold to earn a little bit of extra money.
It was while Smith was examining the fossils of shark spines that he made the amazing discovery. The fossils were actually fragments of jaws of toothless pterosaurs, which do indeed resemble shark fin spines, but there are many subtle differences that allow them to be distinguished.
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Remains of new flying reptile species spotted in UK museum drawer. Student finds mislabelled fragment of pterosaur, which flew over eastern England up to 66m years ago.
Phd student Roy Smith 26, pictured at his home in Portsmouth with a tiny fragment of fossilised bone which he believes is a new sort of dinosaur.
The flying lizard kind of animal must have once flown over the Fens in Cambridgeshire, UK.
Palaeontologists have made a surprising discovery while searching through 100-year-old fossil collections from the UK a new mystery species of pterosaur, unlike anything seen before.
Lead author of the project, University of Portsmouth PhD student Roy Smith, discovered the mystery creature amongst fossil collections housed in the Sedgwick Museum of Cambridge and the Booth Museum at Brighton that were assembled when phosphate mining was at its peak in the English Fens between 1851 and 1900. These fossils found while workmen were digging phosphate nodules were frequently sold to earn a little bit of extra money.
It was while Smith was examining the fossils of shark spines that he made the amazing discovery. The fossils were actually fragments of jaws of toothless pterosaurs, which do indeed resemble shark fin spines, but there are many subtle differences that allow them to be distinguished.
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Remains of new flying reptile species spotted in UK museum drawer. Student finds mislabelled fragment of pterosaur, which flew over eastern England up to 66m years ago.
Phd student Roy Smith 26, pictured at his home in Portsmouth with a tiny fragment of fossilised bone which he believes is a new sort of dinosaur.
The flying lizard kind of animal must have once flown over the Fens in Cambridgeshire.
Pictures shows the fossil with the other shark teeth as Smith discovered it at the museum.
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Palaeontologists have made a surprising discovery while searching through 100-year-old fossil collections from the UK a new mystery species of pterosaur, unlike anything seen before.
Lead author of the project, University of Portsmouth PhD student Roy Smith, discovered the mystery creature amongst fossil collections housed in the Sedgwick Museum of Cambridge and the Booth Museum at Brighton that were assembled when phosphate mining was at its peak in the English Fens between 1851 and 1900. These fossils found while workmen were digging phosphate nodules were frequently sold to earn a little bit of extra money.
It was while Smith was examining the fossils of shark spines that he made the amazing discovery. The fossils were actually fragments of jaws of toothless pterosaurs, which do indeed resemble shark fin spines, but there are many subtle differences that allow them to be distinguished.
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Remains of new flying reptile species spotted in UK museum drawer. Student finds mislabelled fragment of pterosaur, which flew over eastern England up to 66m years ago.
Phd student Roy Smith 26, pictured at his home in Portsmouth with a tiny fragment of fossilised bone which he believes is a new sort of dinosaur.
The flying lizard kind of animal must have once flown over the Fens in Cambridgeshire, UK.
Palaeontologists have made a surprising discovery while searching through 100-year-old fossil collections from the UK a new mystery species of pterosaur, unlike anything seen before.
Lead author of the project, University of Portsmouth PhD student Roy Smith, discovered the mystery creature amongst fossil collections housed in the Sedgwick Museum of Cambridge and the Booth Museum at Brighton that were assembled when phosphate mining was at its peak in the English Fens between 1851 and 1900. These fossils found while workmen were digging phosphate nodules were frequently sold to earn a little bit of extra money.
It was while Smith was examining the fossils of shark spines that he made the amazing discovery. The fossils were actually fragments of jaws of toothless pterosaurs, which do indeed resemble shark fin spines, but there are many subtle differences that allow them to be distinguished.
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Remains of new flying reptile species spotted in UK museum drawer. Student finds mislabelled fragment of pterosaur, which flew over eastern England up to 66m years ago.
Phd student Roy Smith 26, pictured at his home in Portsmouth with a tiny fragment of fossilised bone which he believes is a new sort of dinosaur.
The flying lizard kind of animal must have once flown over the Fens in Cambridgeshire.
Picture shows a close-up through a microscope.
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Palaeontologists have made a surprising discovery while searching through 100-year-old fossil collections from the UK a new mystery species of pterosaur, unlike anything seen before.
Lead author of the project, University of Portsmouth PhD student Roy Smith, discovered the mystery creature amongst fossil collections housed in the Sedgwick Museum of Cambridge and the Booth Museum at Brighton that were assembled when phosphate mining was at its peak in the English Fens between 1851 and 1900. These fossils found while workmen were digging phosphate nodules were frequently sold to earn a little bit of extra money.
It was while Smith was examining the fossils of shark spines that he made the amazing discovery. The fossils were actually fragments of jaws of toothless pterosaurs, which do indeed resemble shark fin spines, but there are many subtle differences that allow them to be distinguished.
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Remains of new flying reptile species spotted in UK museum drawer. Student finds mislabelled fragment of pterosaur, which flew over eastern England up to 66m years ago.
Phd student Roy Smith 26, pictured at his home in Portsmouth with a tiny fragment of fossilised bone which he believes is a new sort of dinosaur.
The flying lizard kind of animal must have once flown over the Fens in Cambridgeshire, UK.
Palaeontologists have made a surprising discovery while searching through 100-year-old fossil collections from the UK a new mystery species of pterosaur, unlike anything seen before.
Lead author of the project, University of Portsmouth PhD student Roy Smith, discovered the mystery creature amongst fossil collections housed in the Sedgwick Museum of Cambridge and the Booth Museum at Brighton that were assembled when phosphate mining was at its peak in the English Fens between 1851 and 1900. These fossils found while workmen were digging phosphate nodules were frequently sold to earn a little bit of extra money.
It was while Smith was examining the fossils of shark spines that he made the amazing discovery. The fossils were actually fragments of jaws of toothless pterosaurs, which do indeed resemble shark fin spines, but there are many subtle differences that allow them to be distinguished.
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Remains of new flying reptile species spotted in UK museum drawer. Student finds mislabelled fragment of pterosaur, which flew over eastern England up to 66m years ago.
Phd student Roy Smith 26, pictured at his home in Portsmouth with a tiny fragment of fossilised bone which he believes is a new sort of dinosaur.
The flying lizard kind of animal must have once flown over the Fens in Cambridgeshire, UK.
Palaeontologists have made a surprising discovery while searching through 100-year-old fossil collections from the UK a new mystery species of pterosaur, unlike anything seen before.
Lead author of the project, University of Portsmouth PhD student Roy Smith, discovered the mystery creature amongst fossil collections housed in the Sedgwick Museum of Cambridge and the Booth Museum at Brighton that were assembled when phosphate mining was at its peak in the English Fens between 1851 and 1900. These fossils found while workmen were digging phosphate nodules were frequently sold to earn a little bit of extra money.
It was while Smith was examining the fossils of shark spines that he made the amazing discovery. The fossils were actually fragments of jaws of toothless pterosaurs, which do indeed resemble shark fin spines, but there are many subtle differences that allow them to be distinguished.
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Remains of new flying reptile species spotted in UK museum drawer. Student finds mislabelled fragment of pterosaur, which flew over eastern England up to 66m years ago.
Phd student Roy Smith 26, pictured at his home in Portsmouth with a tiny fragment of fossilised bone which he believes is a new sort of dinosaur.
The flying lizard kind of animal must have once flown over the Fens in Cambridgeshire, UK.
Palaeontologists have made a surprising discovery while searching through 100-year-old fossil collections from the UK a new mystery species of pterosaur, unlike anything seen before.
Lead author of the project, University of Portsmouth PhD student Roy Smith, discovered the mystery creature amongst fossil collections housed in the Sedgwick Museum of Cambridge and the Booth Museum at Brighton that were assembled when phosphate mining was at its peak in the English Fens between 1851 and 1900. These fossils found while workmen were digging phosphate nodules were frequently sold to earn a little bit of extra money.
It was while Smith was examining the fossils of shark spines that he made the amazing discovery. The fossils were actually fragments of jaws of toothless pterosaurs, which do indeed resemble shark fin spines, but there are many subtle differences that allow them to be distinguished.
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Remains of new flying reptile species spotted in UK museum drawer. Student finds mislabelled fragment of pterosaur, which flew over eastern England up to 66m years ago.
Phd student Roy Smith 26, pictured at his home in Portsmouth with a tiny fragment of fossilised bone which he believes is a new sort of dinosaur.
The flying lizard kind of animal must have once flown over the Fens in Cambridgeshire, UK.
Palaeontologists have made a surprising discovery while searching through 100-year-old fossil collections from the UK a new mystery species of pterosaur, unlike anything seen before.
Lead author of the project, University of Portsmouth PhD student Roy Smith, discovered the mystery creature amongst fossil collections housed in the Sedgwick Museum of Cambridge and the Booth Museum at Brighton that were assembled when phosphate mining was at its peak in the English Fens between 1851 and 1900. These fossils found while workmen were digging phosphate nodules were frequently sold to earn a little bit of extra money.
It was while Smith was examining the fossils of shark spines that he made the amazing discovery. The fossils were actually fragments of jaws of toothless pterosaurs, which do indeed resemble shark fin spines, but there are many subtle differences that allow them to be distinguished.
© Christopher Ison / Guardian / eyevine
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People in the interior rooms of the Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
People in the interior rooms of the Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, Europe
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Dinosaur foot prints in the rock on the moutains behind Morija Guest house in Lesotho.
Dinosaur foot prints in the rock on the mountains behind Morija Guest house, Lesotho, Africa
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Dinosaur foot prints in the rock on the moutains behind Morija Guest house in Lesotho.
Dinosaur foot prints in the rock on the mountains behind Morija Guest house, Lesotho, Africa
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Dinosaur foot prints in the rock on the moutains behind Morija Guest house in Lesotho.
Dinosaur foot prints in the rock on the mountains behind Morija Guest house, Lesotho, Africa
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Exterior view of the Natural History Museum in London, housing the nation's greatest display of Botany, Entomology, Mineralogy, Palaeontology and Zoology (FOTO: DUKAS/ZUMA)
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